--- title: Moving the goalposts: every time the test is met, demand a harder one. — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Moving the goalposts: every time the test is met, demand a harder one. Who acts: time. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/) / 6 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 6 Moving the goalposts: every time the test is met, demand a harder one. **Who acts:** time · **What happens:** move, meet, demand · **To what, where:** goalposts, test, harder one This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:6 # text = Moving the goalposts: every time the test is met, demand a harder one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 goalposts goalpost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 demand demand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | the goalposts | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | present · passive | every time *not said here* | the test | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | | 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | infinitive | | a harder one | | | time | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Precondition | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:6`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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