--- title: For a child today this is how to disagree without a fight, and for a… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today this is how to disagree without a fight, and for a Christian it fits James 1:19: "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry"; olympiad judges reward exactly this. Who acts: this, Christian, olympiad judges. 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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 (this, Christian, olympiad judges), 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:4 # text = For a child today this is how to disagree without a fight, and for a Christian it fits James 1:19: "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry"; olympiad judges reward exactly this. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Christian Christian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 1:19 1:19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 olympiad olympiad NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 judges judge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 reward reward VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 42 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | this | | | | | for a child today; without a fight; disagree *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fit** | present | Christian | James | | | | for a Christian | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent james=Patient | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Christian *not said here* | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **listen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Christian *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | | Christian *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Christian *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **be** *in a quote* | | Christian *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **become** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Christian *not said here* | | | | | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **reward** | present | olympiad judges | this | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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