--- title: Kai wants a photo of a ghost, then a video, then "real life"; Ruby c… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Kai wants a photo of a ghost, then a video, then "real life"; Ruby changes the hide-and-seek rules every time she loses until there's no hiding at all. Who acts: Kai, Ruby, hiding. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai, Ruby, hiding), 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:7 # text = Kai wants a photo of a ghost, then a video, then "real life"; Ruby changes the hide-and-seek rules every time she loses until there's no hiding at all. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound 20 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 22 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 seek seek NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl:unmarked 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Kai | a photo of a ghost and a video and real life | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot photo=Theme | | 2 | **change** | present | Ruby | the hide seek rules | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | present | Ruby | every time *not said here* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality | | 4 | **be** | present | no hiding | | | all; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×4, 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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