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title: Evidence is facts, examples or experiences that support a reason; it… — How to argue: reasons and evidence · tree and pragmatics
description: Evidence is facts, examples or experiences that support a reason; it should be true and fair. Who acts: Evidence, facts. 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 9

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Evidence is facts, examples or experiences that support a reason; it should be true and fair.

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**Who acts:** Evidence, facts · **What happens:** be, support · **To what, where:** facts, reason

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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 (Evidence, facts), 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:9
# text = Evidence is facts, examples or experiences that support a reason; it should be true and fair.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	experiences	experience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	support	support	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | Evidence | facts and examples or experiences |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **support** | present | facts and examples or experiences | a reason |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | should | evidence |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | evidence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:9`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/).

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