Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 8

The either-or: pretend there are only two choices ("Either you feed the hamster or he starves!") when there is a rota on the fridge, literally right there.

Who acts: you, two choices, hamster, rota · What happens: pretend, be, feed, starve · To what, where: hamster

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, two choices, hamster, rota), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pretend	det
2	either	either	CCONJ	_	6 pretend	cc:preconj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 or	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	2 either	cc
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 either	punct
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pretend	ccomp
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 two	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 choices	nummod
11	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	nsubj
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 feed	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 feed	punct
14	Either	either	CCONJ	_	16 feed	cc:preconj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 feed	nsubj
16	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 choices	appos
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hamster	det
18	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feed	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 starves	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 starves	nsubj
21	starves	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 feed	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 starves	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 starves	punct
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 starves	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 is	advmod
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pretend	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rota	det
29	rota	rota	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 is	nsubj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 fridge	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fridge	det
32	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rota	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 there	punct
34	literally	literally	ADV	_	36 there	advmod
35	right	right	ADV	_	36 there	advmod
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 is	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pretend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	does	present	two choices		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed in a quote	present	you	the hamster		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Recipient
4	starve in a quote	present	hamster			tree rules
5	be	present	a rota on the fridge		there; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): R5-strong ×4, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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