--- title: How cold it is can be checked with a window, a thermometer or a weat… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics description: How cold it is can be checked with a window, a thermometer or a weather app; one person's feeling is not the measurement. Who acts: fact, feeling. 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 p --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 20 How cold it is can be checked with a window, a thermometer or a weather app; one person's feeling is not the measurement. **Who acts:** fact, feeling · **What happens:** be, check, not be · **To what, where:** measurement 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 (fact, feeling), 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:20 # text = How cold it is can be checked with a window, a thermometer or a weather app; one person's feeling is not the measurement. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 csubj:pass _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 thermometer thermometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 app app NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 measurement measurement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | fact | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **check** | can · passive | | | | | | with a window and a thermometer or a weather app | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | one person's feeling | the measurement | | | | | 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:20`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/19/) - next →: ["Because I said so" and other dead-end…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/)