How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 0
Arguing well is not shouting; it is giving reasons: "I think X because Y".
Who acts: Arguing, it, I · What happens: argue, not be, give, think · To what, where: reasons, X · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to argue: reasons and evidence» 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 (Arguing, it, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shouting | csubj |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Arguing | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shouting | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 shouting | advmod |
| 5 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 giving | aux |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shouting | parataxis |
| 10 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 giving | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reasons | parataxis |
| 15 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 think | obj |
| 16 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 Y | case |
| 17 | Y | Y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 X | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | well property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not be speech: express | present | Arguing | shout property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | present · progressive | it | reasons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | X | because Y | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot x=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, 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:039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.lesson:0.
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, R7-rel-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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