--- title: Listening to the other side helps you understand why they are upset. — Solving disagreements calmly · tree and pragmatics description: Listening to the other side helps you understand why they are upset. Who acts: Listening, you, Disagreements. A sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» of the everyday 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/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/11/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Solving disagreements calmly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/) / 11 # Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 11 Listening to the other side helps you understand why they are upset. **Who acts:** Listening, you, Disagreements · **What happens:** listen, help, understand, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» of the everyday 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 (Listening, you, Disagreements), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:11 # text = Listening to the other side helps you understand why they are upset. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 054-solving-disagreements-calmly.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | gerund | | | | | | to the other side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | Listening | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **understand** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | Disagreements *= disagreement* | | | | | upset *property* | tree rules | 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:everyday:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:11`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Solving disagreements calmly, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/9/) - next →: [Solving disagreements calmly, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/)