--- title: A rebuttal answers the other side's point, which shows you listened:… — Debating and discussion · tree and pragmatics description: A rebuttal answers the other side's point, which shows you listened: "You said ___, but…" Who acts: rebuttal, point, you, other side. A sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Debating and discussion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/) / 9 # Debating and discussion, sentence 9 A rebuttal answers the other side's point, which shows you listened: "You said \_\_\_, but…" **Who acts:** rebuttal, point, you, other side · **What happens:** answer, show, listen, say, point · **To what, where:** point, \_ · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english 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 (rebuttal, point, you, other side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:9 # text = A rebuttal answers the other side's point, which shows you listened: "You said ___, but…" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 049-debating-and-discussion.lesson # annotation = 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 ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rebuttal rebuttal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 20 _ _ X NFP _ 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 … . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | a rebuttal | the other side's point | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | present | the other side's point | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **listen** | past | you | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | You | \_ | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent \_=Topic | | 5 | **point** | | the other side | | | | | | nom point «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:9`. **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 ×4. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Debating and discussion, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/8/) - next →: [Debating and discussion, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/)