Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 13
Online arguments heat up fast because people cannot see faces; you can say "I disagree" once, walk away, block, or tell a grown-up if it gets nasty.
Who acts: Online arguments, people, you, I, grown, argument · What happens: heat up, not see, say, disagree, walk away, block · To what, where: faces · 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 (Online arguments, people, you, I), 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 | Online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arguments | amod |
| 2 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heat | nsubj |
| 3 | heat | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 heat | compound:prt |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 heat | advmod |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heat | advcl |
| 11 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heat | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 disagree | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 disagree | nsubj |
| 18 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | ccomp |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 disagree | punct |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 disagree | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walk | punct |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 say | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 walk | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 block | punct |
| 25 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 walk | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tell | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 tell | cc |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 say | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 up | det |
| 30 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | obj |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 up | punct |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 grown | compound |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 gets | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 gets | nsubj |
| 35 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | advcl |
| 36 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 gets | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat up | present | Online arguments | fast property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | can | people | faces | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | can | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | disagree in a quote | present | I | once property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | walk away | infinitive | you not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | block | infinitive | you not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | argument | nasty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:13.
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, 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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