How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 7

A claim is what you think, a reason is why you think it, and evidence or an example backs up the reason.

Who acts: claim, you, evidence · What happens: be, think, back up · To what, where: reason, claim

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 (claim, you, evidence), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 claim	det
2	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 reason	det
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 claim	conj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	cop
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 think	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 think	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 backs	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 backs	cc
17	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 backs	nsubj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 example	cc
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 example	det
20	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 evidence	conj
21	backs	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 backs	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reason	det
24	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 backs	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a claim and a reason		tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	you		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	a claim and a reason not said here	a reason	tree rules
4	think speech: other	present	you	claim	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	back up	present	evidence or a example	the reason	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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:7.

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 ×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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