Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 10

Changing your mind after learning something new is a sign of a thinking person; "flip-flopper" is an unkind word for changing views often.

Who acts: Changing, flip flopper, unkind word, your · What happens: change, learn, be, think, mind · To what, where: mind, something, sign, unkind word, views

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 (Changing, flip flopper, unkind word, 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	Changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sign	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mind	nmod:poss
3	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 learning	mark
5	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Changing	advcl
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 learning	obj
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sign	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sign	det
10	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 person	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
13	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 person	amod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sign	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 flopper	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 flopper	punct
17	flip	flip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flopper	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 flip	punct
19	flopper	flopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 word	nsubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 flopper	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 word	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
23	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 word	amod
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sign	parataxis
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 changing	mark
26	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 word	acl
27	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 changing	obj
28	often	often	ADV	_	26 changing	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sign	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		your mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	learn	gerund		something		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	is a	present	Changing	a sign	of a thinking person	tree rules
4	think speech: other	gerund				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	flip flopper	a unkind word		tree rules
6	change	gerund	a unkind word not said here	views	often property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient
7	mind		your			nom mind «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: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): R6-punct-agree ×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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