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title: You can respond to an objection by showing why it is weaker, or by c… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics
description: You can respond to an objection by showing why it is weaker, or by changing your view. Who acts: You, thinker, your. 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 clau
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# How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 7

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You can respond to an objection by showing why it is weaker, or by changing your view.

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**Who acts:** You, thinker, your · **What happens:** respond, show, be, change, view · **To what, where:** 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 (You, thinker, your), 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:7
# text = You can respond to an objection by showing why it is weaker, or by changing your view.
# 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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	objection	objection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **respond** *speech: other* | can | You |  |  |  |  | to a objection | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to objection=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | thinker |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | gerund | You *not said here* | your view |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient |
| 5 | **view** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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.

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