Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 16

You can criticise a thing without attacking a person: "the pizza could be hotter" is not "your mum's a bad cook".

Who acts: You, pizza, mum · What happens: criticise, attack, be · To what, where: thing, person, bad cook · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, pizza, mum), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 criticise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 criticise	aux
3	criticise	criticise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 criticise	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 attacking	mark
7	attacking	attack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 criticise	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attacking	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 cook	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hotter	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pizza	det
13	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hotter	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hotter	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 hotter	cop
16	hotter	hotter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cook	parataxis
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hotter	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 not	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hotter	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 cook	punct
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mum	nmod:poss
22	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cook	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cook	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cook	det
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cook	amod
26	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 criticise	parataxis
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 cook	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 criticise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	criticise	can	You	a thing		tree rules
2	attack	gerund	You not said here	a person		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
3	is in a quote	could	the pizza		hotter property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	your mum	a bad cook		tree rules

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:16.

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. 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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