--- title: A respectful tone means speaking calmly, using names respectfully an… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics description: A respectful tone means speaking calmly, using names respectfully and thanking the other team. Who acts: respectful tone. 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 pragmatics of every --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 16 A respectful tone means speaking calmly, using names respectfully and thanking the other team. **Who acts:** respectful tone · **What happens:** mean, speak, use, thank · **To what, where:** names, other team · **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 (respectful tone), 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:16 # text = A respectful tone means speaking calmly, using names respectfully and thanking the other team. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 respectful respectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 6 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 9 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 respectfully respectfully ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 thanking thank VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | a respectful tone | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | a respectful tone *not said here* | | | | | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | gerund | a respectful tone *not said here* | names | | | | respectfully *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | a respectful tone *not said here* | the other team | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:16`. **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 ×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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