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title: Strong thinkers look for the best objections to their own view, not… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics
description: Strong thinkers look for the best objections to their own view, not the weakest. Who acts: Strong thinkers, objections. 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 c
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# How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 6

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Strong thinkers look for the best objections to their own view, not the weakest.

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**Who acts:** Strong thinkers, objections · **What happens:** look, view

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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 (Strong thinkers, objections), 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:6
# text = Strong thinkers look for the best objections to their own view, not the weakest.
# 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	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thinkers	thinker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	objections	objection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	weakest	weak	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Strong thinkers |  |  |  |  | for the best objections to objections's own view | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for objection=Theme |
| 2 | **view** |  | objections *= objection* |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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