Big feelings in big people, sentence 18

Refusing to admit you are lost or wrong is pride; too much pride makes it hard to ask for help or say sorry.

Who acts: Refusing, much pride · What happens: refuse, not admit, lose, be, make, ask · To what, where: you, pride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (Refusing, much pride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pride	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 admit	mark
3	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refusing	xcomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 admit	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 wrong	cc
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lost	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pride	cop
10	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 makes	punct
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pride	amod
14	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 makes	nsubj
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pride	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hard	obj
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 makes	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 ask	mark
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hard	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 help	case
21	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ask	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ask	conj
24	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	23 say	discourse
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pride	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	gerund				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not admit speech: other	to-infinitive				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	present · passive		you		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	is a	present	Refusing	pride		tree rules
5	make	present	much pride		hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	much pride not said here		for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	much pride not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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, 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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:18.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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