Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 2

Strong arguers steelman: they say the other idea back in its best, strongest words before answering it, and they look for common ground, what both sides want.

Who acts: Strong arguers, arguers, sides, idea · What happens: say, answer, look, want, word · To what, where: other idea, best, idea, common ground · 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 (Strong arguers, arguers, sides, idea), 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	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 arguers	amod
2	arguers	arguer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
3	steelman	steelman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arguers	appos
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 idea	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 idea	amod
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 best	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 words	nmod:poss
13	best	best	NOUN	_	9 idea	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 words	punct
15	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 words	amod
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 best	appos
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 answering	mark
18	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answering	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	nsubj
23	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ground	amod
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 want	obj
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	30 sides	det
30	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 want	nsubj
31	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 ground	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arguers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Strong arguers	the other idea	best		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent idea=Theme in best=Manner
2	answer speech: assert	gerund	Strong arguers not said here	idea			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	look	present	arguers = arguer			for common ground	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ground=Theme
4	want	present	both sides	common ground			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	word		idea				nom word «communication 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:2.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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