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title: Repeating your conclusion in other words as the reason is circular r… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics
description: Repeating your conclusion in other words as the reason is circular reasoning, or going in circles. Who acts: reason, your. A sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 13

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Repeating your conclusion in other words as the reason is circular reasoning, or going in circles.

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**Who acts:** reason, your · **What happens:** repeat, be, go, conclude · **To what, where:** conclusion, other words, circular reasoning, circles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» 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 (reason, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:13
# text = Repeating your conclusion in other words as the reason is circular reasoning, or going in circles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.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	Repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | gerund |  | your conclusion |  | other words |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conclusion=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the reason | circular reasoning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | the reason *not said here* |  |  | circles |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in circle=Location |
| 4 | **conclude** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=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:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:13`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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