Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 4

There are good tricks for keeping the peace: change the subject ("Who wants pie?"), say the other side's best reason before you argue, correct a wrong fact kindly and in private, mute the group chat, or agree to disagree.

Who acts: good tricks, subject, best reason, you, wrong fact · What happens: be, keep, change, want, say, argue · To what, where: peace, subject, pie, group chat · 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 (good tricks, subject, best reason, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tricks	amod
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 keeping	mark
6	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tricks	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peace	det
8	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeping	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 change	punct
10	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 subject	det
12	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	obj
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
15	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wants	nsubj
16	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 subject	acl:relcl
17	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wants	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 pie	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 change	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 side	amod
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reason	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 side	case
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 reason	amod
28	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obj
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 argue	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 argue	nsubj
31	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 reason	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 correct	punct
33	correct	correct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fact	det
35	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fact	amod
36	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 correct	obj
37	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	33 correct	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 mute	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 private	case
40	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 mute	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 private	punct
42	mute	mute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 chat	det
44	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 chat	compound
45	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mute	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 agree	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 agree	cc
48	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 mute	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 disagree	mark
50	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 agree	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	good tricks		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	gerund	good tricks not said here	the peace			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
3	change	infinitive		the subject			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	want in a quote	present	the subject	pie			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pie=Theme
5	say speech: ask	infinitive	the other side's best reason				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	argue speech: disagree	present	you				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	correct speech: disagree	infinitive	a wrong fact			kindly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
8	mute	infinitive	the other side's best reason not said here	the group chat			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chat=Patient
9	agree speech: agree	infinitive	the other side's best reason not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	disagree not said to happen	to-infinitive	the other side's best reason not said here				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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