How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 15
Common ground is what both sides agree on; finding it first makes a discussion calmer.
Who acts: Common ground, sides, finding · What happens: be, agree on, find, make · To what, where: side, discussion
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 (Common ground, sides, finding), 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 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ground | amod |
| 2 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 makes | parataxis |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sides | det |
| 6 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 agree | nsubj |
| 7 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 agree | compound:prt |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 finding | punct |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 makes | csubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 finding | obj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 finding | advmod |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 discussion | det |
| 15 | discussion | discussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 16 | calmer | calm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | 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 | is a | present | Common ground | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | agree on speech: agree | present | both sides | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | gerund | side | first property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | present | finding | a discussion | calm property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset discussion=Product |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-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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