--- title: There are good tricks for keeping the peace: change the subject ("Wh… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: There are good tricks for keeping the peace: change the subject ("Who wants pie?"), say the other side's best reason before you argue, correct a wrong fact kindly and in private, mute the group chat, or agree to disagree. Who acts: good tricks, subject, best reason, you. 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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 (good tricks, subject, best reason, you), 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:4 # text = There are good tricks for keeping the peace: change the subject ("Who wants pie?"), say the other side's best reason before you argue, correct a wrong fact kindly and in private, mute the group chat, or agree to disagree. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 for for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 change change VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 pie pie NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 33 correct correct VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:advmod 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 mute mute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 or or CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | good tricks | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | good tricks *not said here* | the peace | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 3 | **change** | infinitive | | the subject | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the subject | pie | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pie=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the other side's best reason | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | you | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | infinitive | a wrong fact | | | | | kindly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **mute** | infinitive | the other side's best reason *not said here* | the group chat | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chat=Patient | | 9 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | the other side's best reason *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **disagree** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the other side's best reason *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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