--- title: Agreeing to disagree means accepting that thoughtful people can reac… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics description: Agreeing to disagree means accepting that thoughtful people can reach different conclusions. Who acts: Agreeing, thoughtful 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 (Agreeing, thoughtful people), 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:13 # text = Agreeing to disagree means accepting that thoughtful people can reach different conclusions. # 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): no change 1 Agreeing agree VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 accepting accept VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 thoughtful thoughtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 conclusions conclusion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **disagree** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **means** | present | Agreeing | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **accept** | gerund | Agreeing *not said here* | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **reach** | can | thoughtful people | different conclusions | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent conclusion=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. 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