--- title: An argument means giving reasons for your view, not a fight: you can… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics description: An argument means giving reasons for your view, not a fight: you can disagree with an idea and still be friends with the person who has it. Who acts: argument, you, person, your. 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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 (argument, you, person, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:0 # text = An argument means giving reasons for your view, not a fight: you can disagree with an idea and still be friends with the person who has it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.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): no change 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . 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 argument | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | gerund | | reasons | | | | for your view and a fight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for view=Asset | | 3 | **disagree** | can | you | | | | | with a idea | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with idea=Co-Agent | | 4 | **is a** | infinitive | | friends | | | still | with the person | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | the person | argument | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **view** | | your | | | | | | nom view «cognition 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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/16/) - next →: [Arguing politely and never calling names, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/)