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title: Two tricks turn up in nearly every argument on TV, from every side:… — The politician's either-or and the straw man · tree and pragmatics
description: Two tricks turn up in nearly every argument on TV, from every side: the either-or and the straw man. Who acts: Two tricks. A sentence of the lesson «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 0

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Two tricks turn up in nearly every argument on TV, from every side: the either-or and the straw man.

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**Who acts:** Two tricks · **What happens:** turn up · **To what, where:** argument

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The politician's either-or and the straw man» 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 (Two tricks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man.lesson:0
# text = Two tricks turn up in nearly every argument on TV, from every side: the either-or and the straw man.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | present | Two tricks |  |  | every argument on TV |  | from every side or the straw man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in argument=Location |

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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.

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**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:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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