Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 10
A straw man repeats the other person's idea as something more extreme or sillier, then attacks that instead.
Who acts: straw man · What happens: repeat, attack · To what, where: idea, that
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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 (straw 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | straw | straw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeats | nsubj |
| 4 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 person | case |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeats | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 repeats | obl |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 extreme | advmod |
| 13 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | amod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sillier | cc |
| 15 | sillier | silly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 extreme | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attacks | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 attacks | advmod |
| 18 | attacks | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeats | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 attacks | obj |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 18 attacks | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present | a straw man | the other person's idea | as something | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | attack | present | a straw man not said here | that | then | instead property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:10.
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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