How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 6
Giving a reason means saying why you think something, not only what you think.
Who acts: Giving, you · What happens: give, mean, say, think · To what, where: reason, something · 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 (Giving, you), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 think | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 think | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 what | advmod |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 what | advmod |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 something | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | 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 | give | gerund | a reason | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Giving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen | gerund | Giving not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | you | something | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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): 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.
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