--- title: An either-or (false dilemma) gives two options when there are more,… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: An either-or (false dilemma) gives two options when there are more, such as half and half, taking turns, or a rota. Who acts: false dilemma, more. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/15/) [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/) / [Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/) / 15 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 15 An either-or (false dilemma) gives two options when there are more, such as half and half, taking turns, or a rota. **Who acts:** false dilemma, more · **What happens:** give, be, take · **To what, where:** two options This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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 (false dilemma, more), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:15 # text = An either-or (false dilemma) gives two options when there are more, such as half and half, taking turns, or a rota. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 2 either either CCONJ CC _ 9 cc:preconj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 6 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dilemma dilemma NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 options option NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 nsubj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 rota rota NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | a false dilemma | two options | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | more | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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