--- title: Politicians on all sides use straw men; a fair debater first repeats… — The politician's either-or and the straw man · tree and pragmatics description: Politicians on all sides use straw men; a fair debater first repeats the real idea, then says why they disagree. Who acts: Politicians, fair debater. 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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 (Politicians, fair debater), 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:11 # text = Politicians on all sides use straw men; a fair debater first repeats the real idea, then says why they disagree. # 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 1 Politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 straw straw ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 debater debater NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 13 repeats repeat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Politicians on all sides | straw men | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 2 | **repeat** | present | a fair debater | the real idea | | | | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a fair debater *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **disagree** | present | Politicians *= politician* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man.lesson:11`. **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. **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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