Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 0

An argument means giving reasons for your view, not a fight: you can disagree with an idea and still be friends with the person who has it.

Who acts: argument, you, person, your · What happens: mean, give, disagree, be, have, view · To what, where: reasons, friends, argument · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 (argument, you, person, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 argument	det
2	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	ccomp
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giving	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 view	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 view	nmod:poss
8	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reasons	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fight	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fight	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fight	det
12	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 view	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 disagree	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 disagree	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 disagree	aux
16	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 giving	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 idea	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 idea	det
19	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disagree	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 friends	cc
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 friends	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 friends	cop
23	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giving	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 person	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 friends	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 person	acl:relcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 has	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a argument				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	gerund		reasons		for your view and a fight	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for view=Asset
3	disagree	can	you			with a idea	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with idea=Co-Agent
4	is a	infinitive		friends	still	with the person	tree rules
5	have	present	the person	argument			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	view		your				nom view «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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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