How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 4
For a child today this is how to disagree without a fight, and for a Christian it fits James 1:19: "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry"; olympiad judges reward exactly this.
Who acts: this, Christian, olympiad judges · What happens: be, fit, listen, speak, become, reward · To what, where: James, this · 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 (this, Christian, olympiad judges), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disagree | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 disagree | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 disagree | cop |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 disagree | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 disagree | mark |
| 9 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 fight | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fight | det |
| 12 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disagree | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fits | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fits | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Christian | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Christian | det |
| 17 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fits | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fits | nsubj |
| 19 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 disagree | conj |
| 20 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fits | obj |
| 21 | 1:19 | 1:19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 James | flat |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 quick | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 quick | punct |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 quick | cop |
| 25 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fits | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 listen | mark |
| 27 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 quick | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slow | punct |
| 29 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 quick | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 speak | mark |
| 31 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 slow | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 slow | cc |
| 33 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 quick | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 become | mark |
| 35 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 slow | xcomp |
| 36 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 become | xcomp |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 quick | punct |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 reward | punct |
| 39 | olympiad | olympiad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 judges | compound |
| 40 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 reward | nsubj |
| 41 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 disagree | parataxis |
| 42 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 43 this | advmod |
| 43 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 reward | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 disagree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | for a child today; without a fight; disagree property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | Christian | James | for a Christian | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent james=Patient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | Christian not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | to-infinitive | Christian not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | Christian not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Christian not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | be in a quote | Christian not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | become in a quote | to-infinitive | Christian not said here | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | reward | present | olympiad judges | this | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
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:4.
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, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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