--- title: She says "a bit less on the army", he answers "She wants no defence… — The politician's either-or and the straw man · tree and pragmatics description: She says "a bit less on the army", he answers "She wants no defence at all!" and knocks down the scarecrow. Who acts: opponent, man. 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 eve --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 3 She says "a bit less on the army", he answers "She wants no defence at all!" and knocks down the scarecrow. **Who acts:** opponent, man · **What happens:** say, answer, want, knock down · **To what, where:** bit, defence, all, scarecrow · **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 (opponent, man), 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:3 # text = She says "a bit less on the army", he answers "She wants no defence at all!" and knocks down the scarecrow. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 nmod _ _ 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | opponent | a bit | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | | 2 | **answer** *speech: express* | present | man | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | opponent | no defence | | all | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot defence=Theme | | 4 | **knock down** | present | man *not said here* | the scarecrow | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent scarecrow=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:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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