--- title: Sentence stems such as "I agree with ___ because…" and "I disagree b… — Debating and discussion · tree and pragmatics description: Sentence stems such as "I agree with ___ because…" and "I disagree because…" help you give reasons. Who acts: other side, you. A sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Debating and discussion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/) / 8 # Debating and discussion, sentence 8 Sentence stems such as "I agree with \_\_\_ because…" and "I disagree because…" help you give reasons. **Who acts:** other side, you · **What happens:** agree, disagree, give · **To what, where:** help, reasons This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english 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 (other side, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:8 # text = Sentence stems such as "I agree with ___ because…" and "I disagree because…" help you give reasons. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 049-debating-and-discussion.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 discourse _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 3 obl _ _ 9 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ _ 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ _ 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 13 … . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case 20 … . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 22 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | present | the other side *= side* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **disagree** *in a quote* | present | the other side *= side* | help | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | you | reasons | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | 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:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:8`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Debating and discussion, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/7/) - next →: [Debating and discussion, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/)