How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 15
A principle is a general rule used in reasoning, such as "do not harm the innocent".
Who acts: principle · What happens: be, use, not harm · To what, where: general rule, reasoning, innocent · 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 (principle), 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 principle | det |
| 2 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rule | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rule | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rule | det |
| 5 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rule | amod |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rule | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 reasoning | case |
| 9 | reasoning | reasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 harm | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rule | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 harm | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 harm | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 harm | advmod |
| 16 | harm | harm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 rule | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 innocent | det |
| 18 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 harm | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 harm | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a principle | a general rule | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | a general rule not said here | reasoning | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not harm in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the innocent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus innocent=Experiencer |
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:15.
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, 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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