The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 5

Other tricks travel with them: attacking the person instead of the plan, changing the subject, "we've always done it this way", "everyone's talking about it", and the slippery slope "one small change and soon there'll be no rules at all".

Who acts: Other tricks, we, everyone, rules · What happens: travel, attack, change, do, talk, be · To what, where: person, subject

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 (Other tricks, we, everyone, rules), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tricks	amod
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travel	nsubj
3	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 travel	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 attacking	punct
7	attacking	attack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 travel	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attacking	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 plan	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 plan	det
13	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attacking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 changing	punct
15	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 attacking	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 subject	det
17	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 changing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 travel	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
21	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 done	advmod
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 travel	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	obj
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 done	obl:unmarked
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 talking	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 talking	punct
30	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 talking	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 talking	aux
32	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 travel	advcl
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 talking	obl
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 talking	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 slope	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 slope	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 slope	det
39	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 slope	amod
40	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travel	parataxis
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 change	punct
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 change	nummod
43	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 change	amod
44	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 slope	appos
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 be	cc
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 be	advmod
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 be	expl
48	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 be	aux
49	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 change	conj
50	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	51 rules	det
51	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 be	nsubj
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 all	case
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 rules	nmod
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 be	punct
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	present	Other tricks			with side	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attack	gerund	Other tricks not said here	the person		instead the plan	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
3	change	gerund	Other tricks not said here	the subject			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	do in a quote	present · perfect	we	subject		this way obl:unmarked; always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	talk in a quote	present · progressive	everyone			about way	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
6	be in a quote	future	no rules at all		there	soon property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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