--- title: Attacking the person (ad hominem) judges a plan by its maker's behav… — The politician's either-or and the straw man · tree and pragmatics description: Attacking the person (ad hominem) judges a plan by its maker's behaviour; behaviour can matter for trust, but it does not tell you whether a plan works. Who acts: behaviour, plan. A sentence of the lesson «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The politician's either-or and the str…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/) / 13 # The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 13 Attacking the person (ad hominem) judges a plan by its maker's behaviour; behaviour can matter for trust, but it does not tell you whether a plan works. **Who acts:** behaviour, plan · **What happens:** attack, judge, matter, not tell, work · **To what, where:** person, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (behaviour, plan), 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:13 # text = Attacking the person (ad hominem) judges a plan by its maker's behaviour; behaviour can matter for trust, but it does not tell you whether a plan works. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Attacking attack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 ad ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 hominem hominem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 judges judge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 maker maker NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 17 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advcl 33 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attack** | gerund | | the person | | | | by plan's maker's behaviour | tree rules | | 2 | **judge** | present | | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **matter** | can | behaviour | | | | | for trust | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | behaviour | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **work** | present | a plan | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «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:13`. **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): 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. 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