The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 4
It works just the same the other way: "a bit more" becomes "He wants war!"
Who acts: scarecrow, more, man · What happens: work, become, want · To what, where: same, war · 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 (scarecrow, more, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 works | nsubj |
| 2 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 works | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 works | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 works | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 becomes | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 becomes | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 15 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 works | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 becomes | punct |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wants | nsubj |
| 18 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 becomes | ccomp |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wants | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 war | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 war | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | scarecrow | the same | the other way obl:unmarked | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent same=Material | |||
| 2 | become | present | more | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | man | war | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot war=Theme |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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