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title: What would happen in a debate if both sides had to repeat the other'… — The politician's either-or and the str… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen in a debate if both sides had to repeat the other's idea fairly before answering it? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 178 «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 3 · ★ · The politician's either-or and the straw man

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What would happen in a debate if both sides had to repeat the other's idea fairly before answering it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sides · **What happens:** happen, have, repeat, answer · **To what, where:** debate, idea

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 178 «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man:t3:1
# text = What would happen in a debate if both sides had to repeat the other's idea fairly before answering it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a debate |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in debate=Location |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | both sides |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | both sides *not said here* | the other's idea |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | both sides *not said here* | idea |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nobody would be allowed to disagree about anything any more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man:t3:o1:1
# text = Nobody would be allowed to disagree about anything any more
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
9	any	any	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | would · passive |  | Nobody |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **disagree** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about anything | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They would argue about real ideas, not scarecrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man:t3:o2:1
# text = They would argue about real ideas, not scarecrows
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	scarecrows	scarecrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | would | They |  |  |  |  | about real ideas and scarecrows | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The same side would always win

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man:t3:o3:1
# text = The same side would always win
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | would | the same side |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The debate would have to stop at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man:t3:o4:1
# text = The debate would have to stop at once
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | the debate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the debate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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