The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 2
A straw man is a scarecrow version of what your opponent said.
Who acts: straw man, opponent · What happens: be, say · To what, where: scarecrow version · 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 (straw man, opponent), 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 man | det |
| 2 | straw | straw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 version | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 version | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 version | det |
| 6 | scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 version | compound |
| 7 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 version | nmod |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 opponent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | opponent | opponent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 version | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a straw man | a scarecrow version | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | your opponent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:2.
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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