How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 12

Active listening means listening to understand, not just waiting to speak, then summing up what you heard.

Who acts: Active listening, you · What happens: mean, listen, understand, not wait, speak, sum up · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Active listening, you), 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	Active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 listening	amod
2	listening	listening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 understand	mark
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 listening	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waiting	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 waiting	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 waiting	advmod
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 listening	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 waiting	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 summing	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 summing	advmod
15	summing	sum	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 listening	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 summing	compound:prt
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 summing	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	mean	present	Active listening		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen not said to happen	gerund	Active listening not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	understand	to-infinitive	Active listening not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not wait	gerund	Active listening not said here		tree rules
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Active listening not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sum up	gerund	Active listening not said here	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	hear	past	you		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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:12.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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