--- title: The politician's either-or and the straw man — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 178 «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / The politician's either-or and the str… # The politician's either-or and the straw man The 16 questions of lesson 178 «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 101 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t1/) — Teen: "So if I don't like your plan, I hate kids? I literally am a kid. Make it make sense." What has the teen spotted? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t2/) — Gran: "A bit more money for the army means war now? Then if I buy a bigger umbrella, I want a flood." What is Gran laughing at? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t3/) — What would happen in a debate if both sides had to repeat the other's idea fairly before answering it? — right ✓ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t4/) — Uncle from Boston: "That guy's wicked salty. He says she wants no army at all. She said a bit less!" Who is reasoning fairly? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t5/) — Mum, at the telly: "That's lovely, love, but the question was about hospitals." What did the politician do? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t6/) — In a cartoon a politician punches a scarecrow labelled "My opponent's plan" and the crowd cheers. What is the joke? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t7/) — A kid says about "one small change and soon no rules at all": "Rules aren't Jenga." What does the kid mean? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t8/) — Teen: "We always did it this way. We also always had no seatbelts, mate." What is the teen's point? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t9/) — Grandad: "Everyone talked about my burnt Christmas turkey in 1998. Doesn't mean it was a great turkey." What does he show? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t10/) — The politician you like best says, "Either my plan or total chaos!" What should you do? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t11/) — Kid: "Rude to a waiter ten years ago, so his school plan's codswallop? Shouldn't we, like, read the plan?" What is the kid asking for? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/t12/) — Teen: "There's bare options between 'build the road' and 'the town dies', bruv." ("bruv" means mate.) What is she breaking? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/e1/) — Identify the fallacy committed where a speaker asserts that only two courses of action exist, one of which is catastrophic, notwithstanding the existence of further alternatives. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/e2/) — It is given that one politician proposed a modest reduction in military expenditure and that her opponent subsequently characterised the proposal as the abolition of all defence. Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the opponent's reply? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/e3/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the use of such rhetorical devices in political debate. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/e4/) — Ascertain the principal deficiency of the argument that a plan for schools is erroneous because its author was discourteous to a waiter a decade previously. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [177. "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/) - next →: [179. "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/)