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title: When people shout over each other nobody learns anything; good debat… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics
description: When people shout over each other nobody learns anything; good debates let each person finish, then reply. Who acts: people, nobody, good debates, person. A sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 12

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When people shout over each other nobody learns anything; good debates let each person finish, then reply.

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**Who acts:** people, nobody, good debates, person, you · **What happens:** shout, learn, let, finish, reply · **To what, where:** other, anything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 (people, nobody, good debates, person), 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:12
# text = When people shout over each other nobody learns anything; good debates let each person finish, then reply.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	PRON	NN	_	3	obl	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
8	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	debates	debate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | people |  |  | other |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | present | nobody | anything |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | present | good debates |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **finish** | infinitive | each person |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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