How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 7
You can respond to an objection by showing why it is weaker, or by changing your view.
Who acts: You, thinker, your · What happens: respond, show, be, change, view · To what, where: 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 (You, thinker, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 respond | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 respond | aux |
| 3 | respond | respond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 objection | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 objection | det |
| 6 | objection | objection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 respond | obl |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 showing | mark |
| 8 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 respond | advcl |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 weaker | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weaker | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 weaker | cop |
| 12 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 showing | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 changing | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 changing | cc |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 changing | mark |
| 16 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 showing | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 view | nmod:poss |
| 18 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 respond | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | can | You | to a objection | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to objection=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | You not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | thinker | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | change | gerund | You not said here | your view | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient | ||||
| 5 | 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:7.
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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