"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 15

"That's how we always did it" does not show it is the best way; this trap is called appeal to tradition.

Who acts: That, question · What happens: be, not show, call · To what, where: best way, trap · 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 (That, question), 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	_	12 show	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 how	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 how	cop
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 did	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 show	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 show	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 show	advmod
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 way	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 way	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 trap	det
20	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 show	parataxis
23	appeal	appeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 tradition	case
25	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 appeal	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That		how property	tree rules
2	not show	present · do-support				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	question	the best way		tree rules
4	call	present · passive		this trap		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:15.

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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