"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 13

Saying the answer again in other words as the reason is going in circles; grown-ups call it circular reasoning or begging the question.

Who acts: reason, grown ups · What happens: say, go, call, beg · To what, where: answer, other words, circles, reason, question · 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 (reason, grown ups), 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	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Saying	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Saying	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reason	det
10	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 circles	case
14	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 going	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Saying	punct
16	grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ups	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ups	punct
18	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 call	nsubj
19	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Saying	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	obj
21	circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reasoning	amod
22	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 call	xcomp
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 begging	cc
24	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 reasoning	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 question	det
26	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begging	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Saying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the answer	other words	again	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent answer=Theme in word=Manner
2	go	present · progressive	the reason		circles		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in circle=Location
3	call	present	grown ups	reason			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	beg speech: request	gerund	grown ups not said here	the question			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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:13.

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 ×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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