How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 11
A personal attack criticises the person instead of the idea, and it does not answer their reasons.
Who acts: personal attack, attack · What happens: criticise, not answer · To what, where: person, reasons
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 (personal attack, attack), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 attack | det |
| 2 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attack | amod |
| 3 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 criticises | nsubj |
| 4 | criticises | criticise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 criticises | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 10 idea | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 idea | det |
| 10 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 person | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 answer | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answer | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 answer | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 answer | advmod |
| 16 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 criticises | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 reasons | nmod:poss |
| 18 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 answer | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 criticises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | criticise | present | a personal attack | the person | instead the idea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | present · do-support | attack | reasons's reasons | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent reason=Eventuality |
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: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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