Check the claim, not the person, sentence 12
Attacking the person instead of the claim is called ad hominem.
Who acts: Attacking · What happens: attack, call · To what, where: person, ad hominem · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» 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 (Attacking), 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 | Attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Attacking | obj |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 7 claim | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 claim | det |
| 7 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Attacking | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hominem | compound |
| 11 | hominem | hominem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | gerund | the person | instead the claim | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Attacking | ad hominem | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:12.
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): 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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