How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 6
Strong thinkers look for the best objections to their own view, not the weakest.
Who acts: Strong thinkers, objections · What happens: look, view
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 (Strong thinkers, objections), 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 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thinkers | amod |
| 2 | thinkers | thinker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 objections | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 objections | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 objections | amod |
| 7 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 view | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 view | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 view | amod |
| 11 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 objections | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weakest | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 weakest | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 weakest | det |
| 15 | weakest | weak | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 objections | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Strong thinkers | for the best objections to objections's own view | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for objection=Theme | ||||
| 2 | view | objections = objection | 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:6.
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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