Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 1

You can even disagree with an adult, if you are polite and explain your reason calmly; respectful words make adults listen.

Who acts: You, respectful words, adults · What happens: disagree, be, explain, make, listen · To what, where: reason, adults

This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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 (You, respectful words, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 disagree	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disagree	aux
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 disagree	advmod
4	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 adult	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disagree	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 polite	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 polite	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 polite	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 polite	cop
12	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 disagree	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 explain	cc
14	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 polite	conj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 reason	nmod:poss
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 explain	obj
17	calmly	calmly	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 explain	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 words	amod
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	nsubj
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 disagree	parataxis
22	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	obj
23	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disagree	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	disagree	can	You		with a adult	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with adult=Co-Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		polite property	tree rules
3	explain speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	your reason	calmly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
4	make	present	respectful words	adults		tree rules
5	listen	infinitive	adults not said here			vn peer-30.3 «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, 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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:1.

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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