--- title: Listen to understand, sum up what you heard, look for common ground,… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics description: Listen to understand, sum up what you heard, look for common ground, keep a calm and polite tone, and accept that thoughtful people may still agree to disagree and stay friends. Who acts: you, 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 (you, 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:3 # text = Listen to understand, sum up what you heard, look for common ground, keep a calm and polite tone, and accept that thoughtful people may still agree to disagree and stay friends. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:xcomp 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sum sum VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 accept accept VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 thoughtful thoughtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **sum up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hear** | past | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for common ground | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ground=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a calm tone | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Theme | | 7 | **accept** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **agree** *speech: agree* | may | thoughtful people | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **disagree** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thoughtful people *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **stay** | infinitive | thoughtful people *not said here* | friends | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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