The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 7
It teaches you to hear the trick on every side, including the side you like.
Who acts: more, you · What happens: teach, hear, like · To what, where: you, trick, side
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 (more, you), 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 teaches | nsubj |
| 2 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 teaches | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 teaches | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trick | det |
| 7 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 side | punct |
| 12 | including | include | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 side | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teaches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | more | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | more not said here | the trick | every side | include the side | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | like | present | you | the side not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot side=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:7.
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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