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title: Hearing each side's best reasons is how you understand the argument,… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing each side's best reasons is how you understand the argument, whichever side you end up on. Who acts: Hearing, you. A sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 5

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Hearing each side's best reasons is how you understand the argument, whichever side you end up on.

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**Who acts:** Hearing, you · **What happens:** hear, be, understand, end up · **To what, where:** best reasons, argument, side

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» 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 (Hearing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:5
# text = Hearing each side's best reasons is how you understand the argument, whichever side you end up on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.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	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	whichever	whichever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | each side's best reasons |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | Hearing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | present | you | the argument and whichever side |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer argument=Stimulus |
| 4 | **end up** | present | you | whichever side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient side=Result |

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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.

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**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:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.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): 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/).

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