How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 8
Changing your mind for a good reason is a strength, and olympiad judges reward it.
Who acts: Changing, olympiad judges, your · What happens: change, be, reward, mind · To what, where: mind, strength
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 (Changing, olympiad judges, 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 | Changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 strength | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 reason | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reason | amod |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 strength | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 strength | det |
| 10 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reward | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reward | cc |
| 13 | olympiad | olympiad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 judges | compound |
| 14 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reward | nsubj |
| 15 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 strength | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reward | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 strength | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | your mind | for a good reason | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent mind=Theme for reason=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Changing | a strength | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reward | present | olympiad judges | mind | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | mind | your | nom mind «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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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.
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