--- title: Changing your mind after learning something new is a sign of a think… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics description: Changing your mind after learning something new is a sign of a thinking person; "flip-flopper" is an unkind word for changing views often. Who acts: Changing, flip flopper, unkind word, 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 (Changing, flip flopper, unkind word, 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:10 # text = Changing your mind after learning something new is a sign of a thinking person; "flip-flopper" is an unkind word for changing views often. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 after after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 flip flip NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 flopper flopper NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 27 views view NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | gerund | | your mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 2 | **learn** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | Changing | a sign | | | | of a thinking person | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | flip flopper | a unkind word | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **change** | gerund | a unkind word *not said here* | views | | | | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient | | 7 | **mind** | | your | | | | | | nom mind «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:10`. **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): 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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