The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 0
Two tricks turn up in nearly every argument on TV, from every side: the either-or and the straw man.
Who acts: Two tricks · What happens: turn up · To what, where: argument
This is a sentence of the lesson «The politician's either-or and the straw man» 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 (Two tricks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 tricks | nummod |
| 2 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 turn | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 argument | case |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 8 argument | advmod |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 argument | det |
| 8 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 TV | case |
| 10 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 argument | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 side | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 or | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 or | det |
| 17 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 19 or | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 or | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | compound |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn up | present | Two tricks | every argument on TV | from every side or the straw man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in argument=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, 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:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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