--- title: Finding common ground means starting from what both sides want, and… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics description: Finding common ground means starting from what both sides want, and a compromise is a deal where each side gives up a bit. Who acts: Finding, sides, compromise, side. 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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 (Finding, sides, compromise, side), 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:14 # text = Finding common ground means starting from what both sides want, and a compromise is a deal where each side gives up a bit. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 obl _ _ 8 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 compromise compromise NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **find** | gerund | | common ground | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | Finding | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **start** *not said to happen* | gerund | Finding *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **want** | present | both sides | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **is a** | present | a compromise | a deal | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give up** | present | each side | a bit | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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:14`. **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 ×2. **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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