--- title: Understanding someone is not the same as agreeing with them, and "I… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: Understanding someone is not the same as agreeing with them, and "I don't know yet" is an honest answer at any age. Who acts: Understanding. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 5 Understanding someone is not the same as agreeing with them, and "I don't know yet" is an honest answer at any age. **Who acts:** Understanding · **What happens:** understand, not be, agree, not know, be · **To what, where:** someone, honest answer, age · **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 (Understanding), 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:5 # text = Understanding someone is not the same as agreeing with them, and "I don't know yet" is an honest answer at any age. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Understanding understand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 csubj _ _ 18 yet yet ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **understand** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Understanding | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | Understanding *not said here* | | | | | with tricks *= trick* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 4 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Understanding | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | Understanding *not said here* | a honest answer | | | at any age | | 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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