How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 10
"Everyone does it" and "because I want to" are weak reasons.
Who acts: Everyone, Giving · What happens: do, want, be · To what, where: evidence, weak reasons · 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 (Everyone, Giving), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 2 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reasons | csubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 does | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 want | cc |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 want | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 want | xcomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reasons | cop |
| 14 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reasons | amod |
| 15 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg, act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | Everyone | evidence | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | Giving | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | weak reasons | tree rules |
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:10.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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