How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 16
A respectful tone means speaking calmly, using names respectfully and thanking the other team.
Who acts: respectful tone · What happens: mean, speak, use, thank · To what, where: names, other team · 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 (respectful tone), 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 tone | det |
| 2 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tone | amod |
| 3 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | calmly | calmly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 speaking | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 using | punct |
| 8 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 speaking | conj |
| 9 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 using | obj |
| 10 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 8 using | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thanking | cc |
| 12 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 speaking | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 team | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 team | amod |
| 15 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thanking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a respectful tone | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | gerund | a respectful tone not said here | calmly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | a respectful tone not said here | names | respectfully property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | gerund | a respectful tone not said here | the other team | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=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:16.
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 ×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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