How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 16
Consistency means treating similar cases in similar ways.
Who acts: Consistency · What happens: mean, treat · To what, where: similar cases, similar ways
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 (Consistency), 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 | Consistency | consistency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | treating | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cases | amod |
| 5 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 treating | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ways | case |
| 7 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ways | amod |
| 8 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 treating | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Consistency | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | treat not said to happen | gerund | Consistency not said here | similar cases | similar ways | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent case=Recipient |
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:16.
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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