--- title: Fair fighting is simple: say back what the other person really said… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Fair fighting is simple: say back what the other person really said ("Do you mean...?"), agree what would change your mind before you start, and look for the middle options. Who acts: Fair fighting, other person, you, your. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 9 Fair fighting is simple: say back what the other person really said ("Do you mean...?"), agree what would change your mind before you start, and look for the middle options. **Who acts:** Fair fighting, other person, you, your · **What happens:** be, say back, say, mean, agree, change · **To what, where:** mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Fair fighting, other person, you, your), 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:9 # text = Fair fighting is simple: say back what the other person really said ("Do you mean...?"), agree what would change your mind before you start, and look for the middle options. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:csubj 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 really really ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 ... ... PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 options option NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Fair fighting | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say back** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the other person | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **change** | would | | your mind | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **start** | present | you | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | for the middle options | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for option=Theme | | 9 | **mind** | | your | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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