--- title: Saying "I don't know yet" and changing your mind after learning more… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics description: Saying "I don't know yet" and changing your mind after learning more are signs of a thinking person, not a weak one. Who acts: I, 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 (I, 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:3 # text = Saying "I don't know yet" and changing your mind after learning more are signs of a thinking person, not a weak one. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 nsubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 yet yet ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 after after SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 obj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **change** | gerund | | your mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 4 | **learn** | gerund | | more | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | | signs | | | | of a thinking person | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 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:3`. **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 ×1, 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. 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