--- title: A reason that only repeats the claim, like "it is gross because it i… — How to argue: reasons and evidence · tree and pragmatics description: A reason that only repeats the claim, like "it is gross because it is gross", gives no real reason at all. Who acts: reason, claim. A sentence of the lesson «How to argue: reasons and evidence» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/11/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [How to argue: reasons and evidence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/) / 11 # How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 11 A reason that only repeats the claim, like "it is gross because it is gross", gives no real reason at all. **Who acts:** reason, claim · **What happens:** repeat, be, give · **To what, where:** claim, real reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «How to argue: reasons and evidence» of the religion ethics 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, claim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.lesson:11 # text = A reason that only repeats the claim, like "it is gross because it is gross", gives no real reason at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 repeats repeat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 gross gross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 gross gross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 26 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | present | a reason | the claim | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | claim | | | | | gross *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | claim | | | | | gross *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | present | a reason | no real reason all | | | | | 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:religion-ethics:039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.lesson:11`. **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, 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: [How to argue: reasons and evidence, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/10/) - next →: [How to argue: reasons and evidence, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/)