The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 8

An either-or (grown-ups call it a false dilemma) offers only two choices when there are more; most problems have middle options.

Who acts: grown ups, more, most problems · What happens: grow, call, offer, be, have · To what, where: person, two choices, middle options · 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 (grown ups, more, most problems), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 or	det
2	either	either	CCONJ	_	4 or	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 or	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 offers	nsubj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ups	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
8	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 offers	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dilemma	det
12	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dilemma	amod
13	dilemma	dilemma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	xcomp
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
15	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 choices	advmod
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 choices	nummod
18	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 offers	obj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 are	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 are	expl
21	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 offers	advcl
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 are	nsubj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 problems	amod
25	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 offers	parataxis
27	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 options	amod
28	options	option	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 offers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	present	grown ups	person		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	offer	present		two choices		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent choice=Theme
4	be	present	more		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	most problems	middle options		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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