Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 15
An either-or (false dilemma) gives two options when there are more, such as half and half, taking turns, or a rota.
Who acts: false dilemma, more · What happens: give, be, take · To what, where: two options
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 (false dilemma, more), 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 | 7 dilemma | det |
| 2 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 9 gives | cc:preconj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 or | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 gives | cc |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 dilemma | punct |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dilemma | amod |
| 7 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 dilemma | punct |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 options | nummod |
| 11 | options | option | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gives | obj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 are | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gives | advcl |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 are | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 half | punct |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 half | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 more | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 half | cc |
| 21 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 half | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turns | punct |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 turns | amod |
| 24 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 half | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rota | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 rota | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rota | det |
| 28 | rota | rota | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turns | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a false dilemma | two options | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | more | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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