--- title: "If you're not with us, you're against children" is an either-or too… — The politician's either-or and the straw man · tree and pragmatics description: "If you're not with us, you're against children" is an either-or too: people can care about the same thing and disagree about how to help. Who acts: you, people. 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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 (you, people), 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:9 # text = "If you're not with us, you're against children" is an either-or too: people can care about the same thing and disagree about how to help. # 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): no change 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 against against ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 either either CCONJ CC _ 0 root _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 16 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 30 about about SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | with us | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | against children | tree rules | | 3 | **care** | can | people | | | | | about the same thing | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **disagree** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:9`. **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): no change. **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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