What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 14

A debate is a discussion where people give reasons for different sides; hearing good reasons and changing your mind is a strength, not a weakness.

Who acts: debate, people, hearing, your · What happens: be, give, hear, change, mind · To what, where: discussion, reasons, good reasons, mind, strength

This is a sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» of the politics 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 (debate, people, hearing, your), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 debate	det
2	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discussion	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 discussion	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 discussion	det
5	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 give	advmod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 discussion	acl:relcl
9	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 give	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 sides	case
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sides	amod
12	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reasons	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 strength	punct
14	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 strength	csubj
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reasons	amod
16	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hearing	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 changing	cc
18	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 hearing	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mind	nmod:poss
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changing	obj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 strength	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 strength	det
23	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discussion	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 weakness	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 weakness	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 weakness	det
27	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strength	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 discussion	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a debate	a discussion		tree rules
2	give	present	people	reasons	for different sides	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for side=Asset
3	hear	gerund		good reasons		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
4	change	gerund		your mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
5	is a	present	hearing	a strength and a weakness		tree rules
6	mind		your			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:14.

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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