Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 12

When people shout over each other nobody learns anything; good debates let each person finish, then reply.

Who acts: people, nobody, good debates, person, you · What happens: shout, learn, let, finish, reply · To what, where: other, anything

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 (people, nobody, good debates, person), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 shout	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shout	nsubj
3	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 learns	advcl
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 other	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 other	det
6	other	other	PRON	_	3 shout	obl
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 learns	nsubj
8	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reply	parataxis
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 learns	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 debates	punct
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 debates	amod
12	debates	debate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 let	nsubj
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reply	parataxis
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 finish	nsubj
16	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reply	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 reply	advmod
19	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 learns	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	people		other		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	present	nobody	anything			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	let	present	good debates				tree rules
4	finish	infinitive	each person				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	reply speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			then	vn respond-113 «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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:12.

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, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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