The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 17

A slippery slope says one small step will lead to disaster without giving a reason for each step; many changes can be stopped or reversed.

Who acts: slippery slope, one small step · What happens: say, lead, give, stop, reverse · To what, where: reason, many changes · 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 (slippery slope, one small step), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 slope	det
2	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slope	amod
3	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 step	nummod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 step	amod
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lead	aux
9	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 disaster	case
11	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 giving	mark
13	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lead	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 reason	det
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 step	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 step	det
18	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reason	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 changes	amod
21	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stopped	nsubj:pass
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stopped	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 stopped	aux:pass
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lead	parataxis
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 reversed	cc
26	reversed	reverse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 stopped	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a slippery slope			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lead	future	one small step		to disaster	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to disaster=Patient
3	give	gerund	one small step not said here	a reason	for each step	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for step=Asset
4	stop	can · passive		many changes		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	reverse	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:17.

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): R5-strong ×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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