The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 13

Attacking the person (ad hominem) judges a plan by its maker's behaviour; behaviour can matter for trust, but it does not tell you whether a plan works.

Who acts: behaviour, plan · What happens: attack, judge, matter, not tell, work · To what, where: person, you · 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 (behaviour, plan), 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	Attacking	attack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 judges	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Attacking	obj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 hominem	punct
5	ad	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hominem	compound
6	hominem	hominem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 person	appos
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 hominem	punct
8	judges	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 matter	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plan	det
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Attacking	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 behaviour	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 maker	nmod:poss
13	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 behaviour	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 maker	case
15	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Attacking	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 judges	punct
17	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 matter	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 matter	aux
19	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 trust	case
21	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 matter	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 tell	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 tell	advmod
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 matter	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	32 works	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 plan	det
31	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 works	nsubj
32	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 matter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	attack	gerund		the person		by plan's maker's behaviour	tree rules
2	judge	present					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	matter	can	behaviour			for trust	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	not tell speech: assert	present · do-support	behaviour		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	work	present	a plan				vn employment-95.3 «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:13.

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): 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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