--- title: "Let's agree to disagree" means "let's stop arguing, because I will… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Let's agree to disagree" means "let's stop arguing, because I will not change my mind". Who acts: 's, offence, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts ('s, offence, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:20 # text = "Let's agree to disagree" means "let's stop arguing, because I will not change my mind". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 040-with-all-due-respect.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:csubj 3 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 arguing argue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Polarity=Neg 19 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **disagree** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | gerund | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **change** *in a quote* | future | no offence *= offence* | my mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 9 | **mind** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | 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](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:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:20`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)