--- title: Disagreeing about ideas is fine; calling an idea "stupid" makes the… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics description: Disagreeing about ideas is fine; calling an idea "stupid" makes the other person feel attacked, while "I don't agree, because..." keeps the talk going. Who acts: Disagreeing, calling, other person, Strong arguers. 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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 (Disagreeing, calling, other person, Strong arguers), 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:5 # text = Disagreeing about ideas is fine; calling an idea "stupid" makes the other person feel attacked, while "I don't agree, because..." keeps the talk going. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Disagreeing disagree VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 appos _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 18 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:acl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 ... ... PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disagree** | gerund | | | | | | about ideas | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | Disagreeing | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | gerund | | a idea | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent idea=Recipient | | 4 | **make** | present | calling | the other person | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | the other person *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **attack** | participle | the other person *not said here* | | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | present · do-support | Strong arguers *= arguer* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **keep** | present | calling *not said here* | the talk | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **go** | gerund | the talk *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×2, 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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