--- title: An either-or (grown-ups call it a false dilemma) offers only two cho… — The politician's either-or and the straw man · tree and pragmatics description: An either-or (grown-ups call it a false dilemma) offers only two choices when there are more; most problems have middle options. Who acts: grown ups, more, most problems. 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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 (grown ups, more, most problems), 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:8 # text = An either-or (grown-ups call it a false dilemma) offers only two choices when there are more; most problems have middle options. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 either either CCONJ CC _ 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 nsubj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 dilemma dilemma NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 15 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 27 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 options option NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present | grown ups | person | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 3 | **offer** | present | | two choices | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent choice=Theme | | 4 | **be** | present | more | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | most problems | middle options | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=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:8`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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