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title: Somebody write that down, it's science." A good adult can laugh and… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Somebody write that down, it's science." A good adult can laugh and then give the real reason. Who acts: Somebody, reason, good adult. A sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 11

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Somebody write that down, it's science." A good adult can laugh and then give the real reason.

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**Who acts:** Somebody, reason, good adult · **What happens:** write down, be, laugh, give · **To what, where:** that, science, real reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world 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 (Somebody, reason, good adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:11
# text = Somebody write that down, it's science." A good adult can laugh and then give the real reason.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.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	Somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	15	punct	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | infinitive | Somebody | that |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | reason | science |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** *in a quote* | can | a good adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | a good adult *not said here* | the real reason |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |

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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:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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