How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 18
Saying "it depends" well means naming the key things it depends on.
Who acts: it, Saying · What happens: say, depend, mean, name · To what, where: key things · 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 (it, Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 depends | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 depends | nsubj |
| 4 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 depends | punct |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | _ | 1 Saying | advmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | naming | name | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 things | det |
| 10 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 naming | obj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 depends | nsubj |
| 13 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 depends | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | depend in a quote | present | it | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Saying | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | name not said to happen | gerund | Saying not said here | the key things | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | depend | present | it | the key things not said here | 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:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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