How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 9
Evidence is facts, examples or experiences that support a reason; it should be true and fair.
Who acts: Evidence, facts · What happens: be, support · To what, where: facts, reason
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 (Evidence, facts), 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 | Evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 facts | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 facts | cop |
| 3 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 examples | punct |
| 5 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 facts | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 experiences | cc |
| 7 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 facts | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 support | nsubj |
| 9 | support | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 facts | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 reason | det |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 support | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 true | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 true | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 true | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 true | cop |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 facts | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fair | cc |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 true | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 facts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Evidence | facts and examples or experiences | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | support | present | facts and examples or experiences | a reason | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | should | evidence | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | evidence 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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.
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