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title: Grown-ups call it attacking the person (ad hominem). — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups call it attacking the person (ad hominem). Who acts: Grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Check the claim, not the person, sentence 2

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Grown-ups call it attacking the person (ad hominem).

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**Who acts:** Grown ups · **What happens:** grow, call, attack · **To what, where:** person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» 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 (Grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:2
# text = Grown-ups call it attacking the person (ad hominem).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.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	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	attacking	attack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hominem	hominem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attack** | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient |

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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.

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**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:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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