How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 5
A counter-argument is a reason someone might give against your view.
Who acts: counter-argument, someone, your · What happens: be, give, view · To what, where: reason
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 (counter-argument, someone, your), 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 | 2 counter-argument | det |
| 2 | counter-argument | counter-argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reason | acl:relcl |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 view | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 view | nmod:poss |
| 11 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a counter-argument | a reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | might | someone | a reason not said here | against your view | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | |||
| 3 | view | your | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:5.
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.
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