How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 13
Agreeing to disagree means accepting that thoughtful people can reach different conclusions.
Who acts: Agreeing, thoughtful people · What happens: agree, disagree, means, accept, reach · To what, where: different conclusions
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 (Agreeing, thoughtful 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 | Agreeing | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 disagree | mark |
| 3 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Agreeing | xcomp |
| 4 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | accepting | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 reach | mark |
| 7 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reach | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 reach | aux |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 accepting | ccomp |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conclusions | amod |
| 12 | conclusions | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | gerund | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | disagree not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | means | present | Agreeing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | accept | gerund | Agreeing not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reach | can | thoughtful people | different conclusions | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent conclusion=Theme |
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:13.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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