The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 11

Politicians on all sides use straw men; a fair debater first repeats the real idea, then says why they disagree.

Who acts: Politicians, fair debater · What happens: use, repeat, say, disagree · To what, where: straw men, real idea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Politicians, fair debater), 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	Politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 sides	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sides	det
4	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Politicians	nmod
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	straw	straw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 debater	det
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 debater	amod
11	debater	debater	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 repeats	nsubj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 repeats	advmod
13	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 idea	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 idea	amod
16	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 repeats	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 says	advmod
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 repeats	conj
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 disagree	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 disagree	nsubj
22	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Politicians on all sides	straw men			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	repeat	present	a fair debater	the real idea		first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present	a fair debater not said here		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	disagree	present	Politicians = politician				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:11.

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. 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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