The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 14

Answering a different question to dodge the real one is called a red herring; good interviewers ask the question again.

Who acts: good interviewers · What happens: answer, dodge, call, ask · To what, where: different question, real one, red herring, question · 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 (good interviewers), 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	Answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 called	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 question	det
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 question	amod
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Answering	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dodge	mark
6	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Answering	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dodge	obj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 called	aux:pass
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 herring	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 herring	amod
14	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ask	punct
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 interviewers	amod
17	interviewers	interviewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ask	nsubj
18	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 called	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 question	det
20	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ask	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 ask	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund		a different question		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	dodge	to-infinitive		the real one		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent one=Location
3	call speech: assert	present · passive		a red herring		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
4	ask speech: ask	present	good interviewers	the question	again	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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:14.

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.

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