How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 2

Some reasons are weak, like "everyone does it" or "because I want to"; reasons about harm, fairness and rights count for more in ethics.

Who acts: reasons, Arguing · What happens: be, do, want, count · To what, where: evidence

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 (reasons, Arguing), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 reasons	det
2	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weak	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 everyone	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 everyone	punct
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 weak	obl
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 everyone	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 does	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 want	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 want	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 does	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	16 want	xcomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 reasons	punct
20	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 count	nsubj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 harm	case
22	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reasons	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fairness	punct
24	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 harm	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rights	cc
26	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reasons	conj
27	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 more	case
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 count	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 ethics	case
31	ethics	ethic	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 more	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weak	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	some reasons		like everyone; weak property	tree rules
2	do in a quote	present		evidence		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	want in a quote	present	Arguing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	count	present	reasons about harm and fairness and rights		for more	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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