--- title: "Because I'm your mother." That answers "who decides", not "why". — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics description: "Because I'm your mother." That answers "who decides", not "why". Who acts: I, That. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["Because I said so" and other dead-end…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/) / 2 # "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 2 "Because I'm your mother." That answers "who decides", not "why". **Who acts:** I, That · **What happens:** be, answer, decide · **To what, where:** mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, That), 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:2 # text = "Because I'm your mother." That answers "who decides", not "why". # 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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 Because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 advcl _ _ 7 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 10 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | your mother | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | That | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **decide** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×2. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/1/) - next →: ["Because I said so" and other dead-end…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/)