The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 16

Being talked about does not make a plan good; people talk about bad ideas too.

Who acts: people · What happens: talk about, not make, talk · To what, where: plan

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 (people), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 talked	aux:pass
2	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 make	csubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	2 talked	compound:prt
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plan	det
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talk	nsubj
12	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	parataxis
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 ideas	case
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ideas	amod
15	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talk	obl
16	too	too	ADV	_	12 talk	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk about	gerund · passive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»
2	not make	present · do-support		a plan		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
3	talk	present	people		about bad ideas	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic

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:16.

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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