--- title: Steel-manning means stating the other side's view in its strongest f… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics description: Steel-manning means stating the other side's view in its strongest form before you reply; it is the opposite of making it sound silly, and it is fair to your opponent. Who acts: Steel manning, you, view, opposite. 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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 (Steel manning, you, view, opposite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:1 # text = Steel-manning means stating the other side's view in its strongest form before you reply; it is the opposite of making it sound silly, and it is fair to your opponent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 manning man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 stating state VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 reply reply VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 of of SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 26 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 opponent opponent NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Steel manning | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **state** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Steel manning *not said here* | the other side's view | | view's strongest form | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent view=Topic | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | view | the opposite | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | gerund | the opposite *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | infinitive | the opposite *not said here* | view | | | | silly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | view | | | | | to your opponent; fair *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **view** | | the other side | | | | | | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **form** | | view | | | | | | nom form «communication 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:religion-ethics:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, 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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