--- title: A steelman means describing the other side's view in its strongest f… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: A steelman means describing the other side's view in its strongest form; it helps you understand without making you agree. Who acts: steelman, you, other side. 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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 (steelman, you, other side), 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:14 # text = A steelman means describing the other side's view in its strongest form; it helps you understand without making you agree. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 steelman steelman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 describing describe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 without without SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 advcl _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 22 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 . . 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 | **mean** | present | a steelman | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **describe** | gerund | | the other side's view | | steelman's strongest form | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent view=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | steelman | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **understand** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **make** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 7 | **view** | | the other side | | | | | | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **form** | | steelman | | | | | | nom form «communication 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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×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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