How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 1
Steel-manning means stating the other side's view in its strongest form before you reply; it is the opposite of making it sound silly, and it is fair to your opponent.
Who acts: Steel manning, you, view, opposite, other side · What happens: mean, state, reply, be, make, sound · To what, where: view, strongest form, opposite
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to argue: counter-arguments and respect» of the religion ethics 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 (Steel manning, you, view, opposite), 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 | Steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 manning | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Steel | punct |
| 3 | manning | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stating | state | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 view | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 side | case |
| 10 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stating | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 form | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stating | obl |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 reply | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 reply | nsubj |
| 17 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stating | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 opposite | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 opposite | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 opposite | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 opposite | det |
| 22 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 making | mark |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 opposite | acl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sound | obj |
| 26 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 making | xcomp |
| 27 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sound | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fair | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fair | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fair | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 fair | cop |
| 32 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 opposite | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 opponent | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 opponent | nmod:poss |
| 35 | opponent | opponent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fair | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Steel manning | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other not said to happen | gerund | Steel manning not said here | the other side's view | view's strongest form | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent view=Topic | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | present | you | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | view | the opposite | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the opposite not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sound | infinitive | the opposite not said here | view | silly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | present | view | to your opponent; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | view | the other side | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | form | view | nom form «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:religion-ethics:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:1.
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 ×1, 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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