--- title: Some reasons are weak, like "everyone does it" or "because I want to… — How to argue: reasons and evidence · tree and pragmatics description: Some reasons are weak, like "everyone does it" or "because I want to"; reasons about harm, fairness and rights count for more in ethics. Who acts: reasons, Arguing. 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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 (reasons, Arguing), 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:2 # text = Some reasons are weak, like "everyone does it" or "because I want to"; reasons about harm, fairness and rights count for more in ethics. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ 9 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 16 xcomp _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 27 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 ethics ethic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some reasons | | | | | like everyone; weak *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | evidence | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Arguing | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **count** | present | reasons about harm and fairness and rights | | | | | for more | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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 ×3, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/1/) - next →: [How to argue: reasons and evidence, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/)