--- title: Changing the subject can calm an argument; it does not mean the argu… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: Changing the subject can calm an argument; it does not mean the argument is over, only that dinner is not the time for it. Who acts: Changing, it, argument, dinner. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/10/) [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/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/) / 10 # Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 10 Changing the subject can calm an argument; it does not mean the argument is over, only that dinner is not the time for it. **Who acts:** Changing, it, argument, dinner · **What happens:** change, calm, not mean, be, not be · **To what, where:** subject, argument, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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, it, argument, dinner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:10 # text = Changing the subject can calm an argument; it does not mean the argument is over, only that dinner is not the time for it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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 Changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 over over ADV RB _ 12 ccomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | gerund | | the subject | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 2 | **calm** | can | Changing | a argument | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus argument=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the argument | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | that dinner | the time | | | | for subject | 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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:10`. **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. 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