Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 10

Changing the subject can calm an argument; it does not mean the argument is over, only that dinner is not the time for it.

Who acts: Changing, it, argument, dinner · What happens: change, calm, not mean, be, not be · To what, where: subject, argument, time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» 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 (Changing, it, argument, dinner), 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	Changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 calm	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 subject	det
3	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	aux
5	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 argument	det
7	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calm	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mean	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mean	advmod
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 calm	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 argument	det
14	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 over	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 over	cop
16	over	over	ADV	_	12 mean	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 only	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	24 time	advmod
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 dinner	det
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 time	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 time	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 time	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mean	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 calm	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		the subject		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	calm	can	Changing	a argument		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus argument=Experiencer
3	not mean	present · do-support	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the argument		over property	tree rules
5	not is a	present	that dinner	the time	for subject	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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:10.

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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