Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 6

Calling people names because of their political views is hurtful and does not change minds; asking "why?" works better.

Who acts: Calling, people · What happens: call, be, not change, ask, work, view · To what, where: names, people, minds · 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 (Calling, people), 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	Calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 hurtful	csubj
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Calling	iobj
3	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Calling	obj
4	because	because	ADP	_	8 views	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 because	fixed
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 views	nmod:poss
7	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 views	amod
8	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Calling	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hurtful	cop
10	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 change	cc
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 change	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 change	advmod
14	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hurtful	conj
15	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 change	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 hurtful	punct
17	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 change	advcl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 why	punct
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 asking	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 why	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 why	punct
22	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hurtful	parataxis
23	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 works	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hurtful	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=decl, act=evaluate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	gerund		names	people	because people's political views	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme name=Result
2	is	present	Calling			hurtful property	tree rules
3	not change	present · do-support	Calling not said here	minds			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	Calling not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work	present				well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	view		people				nom view «cognition 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:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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