--- title: Saying the answer again in other words as the reason is going in cir… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics description: Saying the answer again in other words as the reason is going in circles; grown-ups call it circular reasoning or begging the question. Who acts: reason, grown ups. 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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 (reason, grown ups), 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:13 # text = Saying the answer again in other words as the reason is going in circles; grown-ups call it circular reasoning or begging the question. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 16 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 circular circular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 reasoning reasoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | the answer | | other words | again | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent answer=Theme in word=Manner | | 2 | **go** | present · progressive | the reason | | | circles | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in circle=Location | | 3 | **call** | present | grown ups | reason | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | grown ups *not said here* | the question | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | 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:13`. **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, 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. 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