--- title: "Because I said so" answers who decides, not why; grown-ups call lea… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics description: "Because I said so" answers who decides, not why; grown-ups call leaning on who you are instead of a reason an appeal to authority. Who acts: grown ups, answers. 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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 (grown ups, answers), 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:12 # text = "Because I said so" answers who decides, not why; grown-ups call leaning on who you are instead of a reason an appeal to authority. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Because because SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 23 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 28 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 appeal appeal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 authority authority NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | grown ups *= up* | answers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **decide** | present | answers | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | grown ups | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **lean** | gerund | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | a reason appeal | | to authority | tree rules | 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:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:12`. **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, R8-pos-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: ["Because I said so" and other dead-end…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/11/) - next →: ["Because I said so" and other dead-end…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/)