Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 5
Disagreeing about ideas is fine; calling an idea "stupid" makes the other person feel attacked, while "I don't agree, because..." keeps the talk going.
Who acts: Disagreeing, calling, other person, Strong arguers, talk · What happens: disagree, be, call, make, feel, attack · To what, where: idea, other person, talk · 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 (Disagreeing, calling, other person, Strong arguers), 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 | Disagreeing | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fine | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 ideas | case |
| 3 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Disagreeing | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 makes | csubj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stupid | punct |
| 11 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | appos |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stupid | punct |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 person | amod |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 feel | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 agree | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 agree | mark |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 agree | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 agree | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 agree | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 agree | advmod |
| 25 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fine | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 keeps | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 keeps | mark |
| 28 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 27 because | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 because | punct |
| 30 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 makes | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 talk | det |
| 32 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 keeps | obj |
| 33 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 keeps | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fine | 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 | disagree | gerund | about ideas | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Disagreeing | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | a idea | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent idea=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | make | present | calling | the other person | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | the other person not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | attack | participle | the other person not said here | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not agree speech: agree in a quote | present · do-support | Strong arguers = arguer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | keep | present | calling not said here | the talk | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go | gerund | the talk not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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, 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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