"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 12

"Because I said so" answers who decides, not why; grown-ups call leaning on who you are instead of a reason an appeal to authority.

Who acts: grown ups, answers · What happens: say, decide, grow, call, lean, be · To what, where: answers, reason appeal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world 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 (grown ups, answers), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 answers	punct
7	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 decides	nsubj
9	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answers	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 why	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 why	advmod
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 decides	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grown	punct
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ups	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 grown	punct
16	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 call	nsubj
17	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
18	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 call	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	28 appeal	case
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 appeal	nsubj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 appeal	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 appeal	cop
23	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	28 appeal	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 instead	fixed
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 reason	det
26	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appeal	compound
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 appeal	det
28	appeal	appeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaning	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 authority	case
30	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appeal	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	grown ups = up	answers			tree rules
2	decide	present	answers				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call speech: assert	present	grown ups				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lean	gerund	grown ups not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present			a reason appeal	to authority	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:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:12.

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, 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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