Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 14

Finding common ground means starting from what both sides want, and a compromise is a deal where each side gives up a bit.

Who acts: Finding, sides, compromise, side · What happens: find, mean, start, want, be, give up · To what, where: common ground, deal, bit · 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 (Finding, sides, compromise, side), 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	Finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ground	amod
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Finding	obj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 starting	obl
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sides	det
9	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deal	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 deal	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 compromise	det
14	compromise	compromise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deal	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 deal	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deal	det
17	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	conj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 gives	advmod
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	nsubj
21	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 deal	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 gives	compound:prt
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	gerund		common ground	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Topic
2	mean	present	Finding		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start not said to happen	gerund	Finding not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	want	present	both sides		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a	present	a compromise	a deal	tree rules
6	give up	present	each side	a bit	vn resign-10.11-2 «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:14.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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