--- title: A "straw man" is the opposite: making the other view sound sillier t… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics description: A "straw man" is the opposite: making the other view sound sillier than it is so it is easy to knock down. Who acts: straw man, other view. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straw man, other view), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:10 # text = A "straw man" is the opposite: making the other view sound sillier than it is so it is easy to knock down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson # annotation = 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 sillier silly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:xcomp 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:mark 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:cop 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 expl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 25 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a straw man | the opposite | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | gerund | a straw man *not said here* | the other view | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sound** | infinitive | the other view *not said here* | | | | | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | the other view *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **knock down** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:religion-ethics:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:10`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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