---
title: Being fair means treating people by the same rules, not favouring fr… — People and society — communities, work, money an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being fair means treating people by the same rules, not favouring friends. Who acts: fair. A sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/20/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [People and society — communities, work…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/) / 20

# People and society — communities, work, money and rules, sentence 20

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being fair means treating people by the same rules, not favouring friends.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** fair · **What happens:** be, mean, treat, not favour · **To what, where:** people, friends

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:058-people-and-society.lesson:20
# text = Being fair means treating people by the same rules, not favouring friends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 058-people-and-society.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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	favouring	favour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | fair |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **treat** *not said to happen* | gerund | fair *not said here* |  | people |  |  | by the same rules | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **favour** | gerund | fair *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:058-people-and-society.lesson:20`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [People and society — communities, work…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/19/)
- next →: [Inventions, computers and the internet, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/0/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/)