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title: Steelmanning each other's best reason before arguing helps two peopl… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Steelmanning each other's best reason before arguing helps two people understand each other and find a middle way. Who acts: Steelmanning, two people. A sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 11

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Steelmanning each other's best reason before arguing helps two people understand each other and find a middle way.

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**Who acts:** Steelmanning, two people · **What happens:** steelman, argue, help, understand, find · **To what, where:** best reason, two people, each, middle way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (Steelmanning, two people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:11
# text = Steelmanning each other's best reason before arguing helps two people understand each other and find a middle way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 040-putting-it-together.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): no change
1	Steelmanning	steelman	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	xcomp	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	12	obj	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steelman** | gerund |  | each other's best reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | Steelmanning | two people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **understand** | present | two people *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 5 | **find** | infinitive | two people *not said here* | a middle way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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