How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 11

A reason that only repeats the claim, like "it is gross because it is gross", gives no real reason at all.

Who acts: reason, claim · What happens: repeat, be, give · To what, where: claim, real reason · 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 (reason, claim), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gives	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 repeats	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 repeats	advmod
5	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reason	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claim	det
7	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repeats	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gross	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 gross	mark
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 gross	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gross	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gross	cop
13	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 repeats	parataxis
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 gross	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gross	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gross	cop
17	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gross	advcl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 gross	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reason	punct
20	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 reason	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 reason	amod
23	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gives	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	fixed
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 reason	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 gives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	a reason	the claim		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	claim		gross property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	claim		gross property	tree rules
4	give	present	a reason	no real reason all		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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:11.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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