Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 8

Steelmanning means saying the other person's idea in its strongest, fairest way; strawmanning means making it sound silly so it is easy to knock down.

Who acts: strawmanning · What happens: steelman, mean, say, make, sound, be · To what, where: idea, strongest fairest way · 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 (strawmanning), 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	Steelmanning	steelman	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 idea	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 person	case
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 way	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
11	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 way	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 strongest	punct
13	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 idea	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
16	strawmanning	strawman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
18	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 means	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sound	nsubj
20	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 making	xcomp
21	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sound	xcomp
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 easy	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 easy	expl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 easy	cop
25	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 silly	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 knock	mark
27	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 easy	csubj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 knock	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steelman	gerund					tree rules
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	gerund		the other person's idea	idea's strongest fairest way		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent idea=Theme in way=Manner
4	mean	present	strawmanning				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make not said to happen	gerund	strawmanning not said here				tree rules
6	sound not said to happen	infinitive	strawmanning = strawman			silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	present	strawmanning = strawman not said here			easy property	tree rules
8	knock down	to-infinitive					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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