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title: Other dead ends sound like reasons but go nowhere: "Phones are bad b… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Other dead ends sound like reasons but go nowhere: "Phones are bad because they're bad" just says the answer twice. Who acts: Other dead ends, Phones, answer. 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 tr
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# "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 4

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Other dead ends sound like reasons but go nowhere: "Phones are bad because they're bad" just says the answer twice.

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**Who acts:** Other dead ends, Phones, answer · **What happens:** sound, go, be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Other dead ends, Phones, answer), 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:4
# text = Other dead ends sound like reasons but go nowhere: "Phones are bad because they're bad" just says the answer twice.
# 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
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | Other dead ends |  |  |  |  | like reasons | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | present | Other dead ends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Phones |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Phones *= phone* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the answer |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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. **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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