--- title: Adults usually know more, so listening to them is sensible, but a fa… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics description: Adults usually know more, so listening to them is sensible, but a fact is checked by looking, not by asking who is oldest. Who acts: Adults, listening. 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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 (Adults, listening), 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:19 # text = Adults usually know more, so listening to them is sensible, but a fact is checked by looking, not by asking who is oldest. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 7 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Adults | more | | | | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 2 | **listen** | gerund | | | thinking | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | listening | | | | | sensible *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | present · passive | | a fact | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | | old *property* | 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:19`. **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: ["Because I said so" and other dead-end…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/18/) - next →: ["Because I said so" and other dead-end…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/)