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title: Online arguments heat up fast because people cannot see faces; you c… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics
description: Online arguments heat up fast because people cannot see faces; you can say "I disagree" once, walk away, block, or tell a grown-up if it gets nasty. Who acts: Online arguments, people, you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» of the politics course of Mova's primar
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# Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 13

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Online arguments heat up fast because people cannot see faces; you can say "I disagree" once, walk away, block, or tell a grown-up if it gets nasty.

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**Who acts:** Online arguments, people, you, I, grown, argument · **What happens:** heat up, not see, say, disagree, walk away, block · **To what, where:** faces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Online arguments, people, you, I), 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:13
# text = Online arguments heat up fast because people cannot see faces; you can say "I disagree" once, walk away, block, or tell a grown-up if it gets nasty.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heat	heat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
30	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
36	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat up** | present | Online arguments |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | people | faces |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **disagree** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **walk away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **block** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | grown |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | argument |  |  |  |  | nasty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:13`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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