--- title: A claim is what you think, a reason is why you think it, and evidenc… — How to argue: reasons and evidence · tree and pragmatics description: A claim is what you think, a reason is why you think it, and evidence or an example backs up the reason. Who acts: claim, you, evidence. 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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 (claim, you, evidence), 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:7 # text = A claim is what you think, a reason is why you think it, and evidence or an example backs up the reason. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 11 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 backs back VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a claim and a reason | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | a claim and a reason *not said here* | a reason | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you | claim | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **back up** | present | evidence or a example | the reason | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/6/) - next →: [How to argue: reasons and evidence, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/)