Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 11
Listening to the other side helps you understand why they are upset.
Who acts: Listening, you, Disagreements · What happens: listen, help, understand, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 (Listening, you, Disagreements), 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 | Listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 helps | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 side | amod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Listening | obl |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 understand | nsubj |
| 8 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helps | xcomp |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 upset | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 upset | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 upset | cop |
| 12 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 understand | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | gerund | to the other side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | present | Listening | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | understand | infinitive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Disagreements = disagreement | upset property | tree rules |
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:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-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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