How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 2

Criticise the idea, never the person: "You only say that because you're a baby" answers nothing, because an attack on someone does not show their reasons are wrong.

Who acts: you, attack, reasons · What happens: criticise, say, be, answer, not show · To what, where: idea, that, baby, nothing · 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 (you, attack, reasons), 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	Criticise	criticise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 idea	det
3	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Criticise	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 person	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 person	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Criticise	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answers	csubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 say	obj
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 baby	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 baby	nsubj
16	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 baby	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 baby	det
18	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	advcl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 baby	punct
20	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Criticise	parataxis
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 answers	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 show	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 show	mark
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 attack	det
25	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	nsubj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 someone	case
27	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 attack	nmod
28	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 show	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 show	advmod
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answers	advcl
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 reasons	nmod:poss
32	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 wrong	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 wrong	cop
34	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 show	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Criticise	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	criticise	imperative	you not said here	the idea		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	You	that		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	you	a baby		tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	present		nothing		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	not show	present · do-support	a attack on someone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	counter-arguments's reasons		wrong property	tree rules

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:2.

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): R5-strong ×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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