--- title: Other tricks travel with them: attacking the person instead of the p… — The politician's either-or and the straw man · tree and pragmatics description: Other tricks travel with them: attacking the person instead of the plan, changing the subject, "we've always done it this way", "everyone's talking about it", and the slippery slope "one small change and soon there'll be no rules at all". Who acts: Other tricks, we, everyone, rules. 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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 (Other tricks, we, everyone, rules), 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:5 # text = Other tricks travel with them: attacking the person instead of the plan, changing the subject, "we've always done it this way", "everyone's talking about it", and the slippery slope "one small change and soon there'll be no rules at all". # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 attacking attack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 23 advmod _ _ 23 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 33 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 slope slope NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 43 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 49 advmod _ _ 47 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 49 expl _ _ 48 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 50 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 51 det _ _ 51 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 51 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:obl 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | Other tricks | | | | | with side | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **attack** | gerund | Other tricks *not said here* | the person | | | | instead the plan | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 3 | **change** | gerund | Other tricks *not said here* | the subject | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | subject | | | | this way *obl:unmarked*; always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **talk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | everyone | | | | | about way | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | future | no rules at all | | | there | | soon *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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