How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 17
Changing one detail of a case can show what really matters to your answer.
Who acts: Changing, your · What happens: change, show, matter, detail, answer · To what, where: one detail, case · 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 (Changing, your), 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 | Changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 show | csubj |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 detail | nummod |
| 3 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 case | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 detail | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | aux |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 matters | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 matters | advmod |
| 11 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 answer | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 answer | nmod:poss |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 matters | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | one detail of a case | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient | |||||
| 2 | show | can | Changing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | matter | present | to your answer | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to answer=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | detail | a case | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | answer | your | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:17.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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