--- title: For a child today this helps at home, in the playground and at Sunda… — How to argue: reasons and evidence · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today this helps at home, in the playground and at Sunday school: when you explain why, people can understand you, and Peter wrote that Christians should be ready to give a reason for their hope, with gentleness and respect. Who acts: this, you, people, Peter. 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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 (this, you, people, Peter), 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:5 # text = For a child today this helps at home, in the playground and at Sunday school: when you explain why, people can understand you, and Peter wrote that Christians should be ready to give a reason for their hope, with gentleness and respect. # 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 ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 21 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 gentleness gentleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | this | | | home | | for a child today; in the playground and Sunday school | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **understand** | can | people | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **write** | past | Peter | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | should | Christians | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | to-infinitive | Christians *not said here* | a reason | | | | for reasons's hope; with gentleness and respect | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for hope=Asset | | 7 | **hope** | | reasons *= reason* | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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:religion-ethics:039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.lesson:5`. **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 ×2. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/2/) - next →: [How to argue: reasons and evidence, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/)