Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 1

Think of two mates arguing over which pizza to order: "pineapple's wrong because..." keeps it fun, but "you're stupid" ends dinner, because the moment you insult someone they stop listening and start defending.

Who acts: you, two mates, mates · What happens: think, argue, order, be, keep, end · To what, where: pineapple, dinner, someone · 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 (you, two mates, mates), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 mates	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mates	nummod
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Think	obl
5	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mates	acl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 pizza	case
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 pizza	det
8	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arguing	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 order	mark
10	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 arguing	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 wrong	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 wrong	punct
13	pineapple	pineapple	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrong	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pineapple	cop
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Think	conj
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 keeps	mark
17	...	...	PUNCT	_	16 because	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 because	punct
19	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keeps	obj
21	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keeps	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stupid	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 stupid	cc
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 stupid	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 stupid	nsubj
26	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stupid	cop
27	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Think	parataxis
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 stupid	punct
29	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stupid	conj
30	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ends	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 insult	punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 stop	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moment	det
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stop	obl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 insult	nsubj
36	insult	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 moment	acl:relcl
37	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 insult	obj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stop	nsubj
39	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ends	advcl
40	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 stop	xcomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 start	cc
42	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 stop	conj
43	defending	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 start	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			of two mates	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	two mates not said here			over which pizza	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over pizza=Theme
3	order	to-infinitive	two mates not said here				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		pineapple			tree rules
5	keep	present		pineapple		fun property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	you			stupid property	tree rules
7	end	present	you not said here	dinner			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dinner=Eventuality
8	insult	present	you	someone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
9	stop	present	mates = mate		moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
10	listen	gerund	mates = mate not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
11	start	present	mates = mate not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
12	defend	gerund	mates = mate not said here				vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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