--- title: "Because I said so" usually means the parent is too tired to explain… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: "Because I said so" usually means the parent is too tired to explain again, or the decision is about safety or fairness and is made; a calm "Can you tell me why?" later works better than arguing. Who acts: parent, decision, you, calm. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parent, decision, you, calm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:12 # text = "Because I said so" usually means the parent is too tired to explain again, or the decision is about safety or fairness and is made; a calm "Can you tell me why?" later works better than arguing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Because because SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 calm calm NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:acl 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 40 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 41 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 42 better well ADV JJR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 43 than than SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the parent *= parent* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the parent | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the parent *not said here* | | | | again | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the decision | | | | | about safety or fairness | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present · passive | the decision *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | you | | Most people *= people* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 8 | **work** | present | a calm | | | | | late, well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | a calm *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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