--- title: Calling people names because of their political views is hurtful and… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics description: Calling people names because of their political views is hurtful and does not change minds; asking "why?" works better. Who acts: Calling, people. 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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 (Calling, people), 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:6 # text = Calling people names because of their political views is hurtful and does not change minds; asking "why?" works better. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 iobj _ _ 3 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 because because ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 views view NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 hurtful hurtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 17 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 22 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 23 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=decl, act=evaluate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund | | names | people | | | because people's political views | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme name=Result | | 2 | **is** | present | Calling | | | | | hurtful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | Calling *not said here* | minds | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Calling *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **work** | present | | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **view** | | people | | | | | | nom view «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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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