--- title: Active listening means listening to understand, not just waiting to… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics description: Active listening means listening to understand, not just waiting to speak, then summing up what you heard. Who acts: Active listening, you. A sentence of the lesson «How to argue: counter-arguments and respect» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/40-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [How to argue: counter-arguments and re…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/40-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect/) / 12 # How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 12 Active listening means listening to understand, not just waiting to speak, then summing up what you heard. **Who acts:** Active listening, you · **What happens:** mean, listen, understand, not wait, speak, sum up · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «How to argue: counter-arguments and respect» of the religion ethics 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 (Active listening, you), 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:12 # text = Active listening means listening to understand, not just waiting to speak, then summing up what you heard. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 listening listening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 summing sum VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Active listening | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **listen** *not said to happen* | gerund | Active listening *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **understand** | to-infinitive | Active listening *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **wait** | gerund | Active listening *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Active listening *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sum up** | gerund | Active listening *not said here* | | | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 7 | **hear** | past | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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:12`. **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 ×2. **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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