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title: Consistency means treating similar cases in similar ways. — How to argue: reasons and evidence · tree and pragmatics
description: Consistency means treating similar cases in similar ways. Who acts: Consistency. 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 every clause.
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# How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 16

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Consistency means treating similar cases in similar ways.

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**Who acts:** Consistency · **What happens:** mean, treat · **To what, where:** similar cases, similar ways

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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 (Consistency), 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:16
# text = Consistency means treating similar cases in similar ways.
# 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): no change
1	Consistency	consistency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Consistency |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **treat** *not said to happen* | gerund | Consistency *not said here* | similar cases |  | similar ways |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent case=Recipient |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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