The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 3

She says "a bit less on the army", he answers "She wants no defence at all!" and knocks down the scarecrow.

Who acts: opponent, man · What happens: say, answer, want, knock down · To what, where: bit, defence, all, scarecrow · 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 (opponent, man), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 less	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 bit	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 army	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 less	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 less	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answers	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answers	nsubj
13	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
15	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wants	nsubj
16	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answers	ccomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 defence	det
18	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wants	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 defence	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 defence	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 defence	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knocks	cc
24	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answers	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 knocks	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 scarecrow	det
27	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knocks	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	opponent	a bit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bit=Topic
2	answer speech: express	present	man			tree rules
3	want in a quote	present	opponent	no defence	all	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot defence=Theme
4	knock down	present	man not said here	the scarecrow		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent scarecrow=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:3.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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