Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 11
Steelmanning each other's best reason before arguing helps two people understand each other and find a middle way.
Who acts: Steelmanning, two people · What happens: steelman, argue, help, understand, find · To what, where: best reason, two people, each, middle way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (Steelmanning, two 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 | Steelmanning | steelman | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 helps | csubj |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 other | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reason | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 other | case |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 reason | amod |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Steelmanning | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 arguing | mark |
| 8 | arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Steelmanning | advcl |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 people | nummod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 helps | obj |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 understand | obj |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 understand | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steelman | gerund | each other's best reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | help | present | Steelmanning | two people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | understand | present | two people not said here | each | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | two people not said here | a middle way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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