--- title: Some dead ends lean on age or habit: "I'm the adult, so I'd know", "… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics description: Some dead ends lean on age or habit: "I'm the adult, so I'd know", "back in my day we didn't ask". Who acts: dead ends, answer, we. 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 ev --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 6 Some dead ends lean on age or habit: "I'm the adult, so I'd know", "back in my day we didn't ask". **Who acts:** dead ends, answer, we · **What happens:** lean, be, know, not ask · **To what, where:** age, adult · **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 (dead ends, answer, we), 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:6 # text = Some dead ends lean on age or habit: "I'm the adult, so I'd know", "back in my day we didn't ask". # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lean lean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lean** | present | some dead ends | | | | on age or habit | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer *= answer* | the adult | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | would | the answer *= answer* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past · do-support | we | | | | day | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:6`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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