Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 14

A steelman means describing the other side's view in its strongest form; it helps you understand without making you agree.

Who acts: steelman, you, other side · What happens: mean, describe, help, understand, make, agree · To what, where: view, strongest form, you · 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 (steelman, you, other side), 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 steelman	det
2	steelman	steelman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	describing	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 view	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 side	case
9	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describing	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 form	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 form	nmod:poss
12	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 form	amod
13	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describing	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 helps	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 helps	nsubj
16	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 understand	nsubj
18	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 helps	ccomp
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 making	mark
20	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 understand	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 agree	obj
22	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 making	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	a steelman			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	describe	gerund		the other side's view	steelman's strongest form	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent view=Theme
3	help	present	steelman			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	understand	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	make	gerund	you not said here			tree rules
6	agree speech: agree	infinitive	you not said here	you		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent you=Topic
7	view		the other side			nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	form		steelman			nom form «communication 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:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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