The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 13
Repeating your conclusion in other words as the reason is circular reasoning, or going in circles.
Who acts: reason, your · What happens: repeat, be, go, conclude · To what, where: conclusion, other words, circular reasoning, circles
This is a sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» 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, your), 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 | Repeating | repeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 conclusion | nmod:poss |
| 3 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Repeating | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Repeating | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 reasoning | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reason | det |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reasoning | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reasoning | cop |
| 11 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reasoning | amod |
| 12 | reasoning | reasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Repeating | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 going | cc |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 reasoning | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 circles | case |
| 17 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 going | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Repeating | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | gerund | your conclusion | other words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conclusion=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the reason | circular reasoning | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the reason not said here | circles | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in circle=Location | ||||
| 4 | conclude | your | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=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:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.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. 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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