Big feelings in big people, sentence 19
Saying "I was wrong" is a strength, not a weakness.
Who acts: I, Saying · What happens: say, be · To what, where: strength · 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 (I, Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 strength | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 strength | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 strength | det |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weakness | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 weakness | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 weakness | det |
| 13 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strength | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 strength | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | I | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Saying | a strength | 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, 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:19.
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): 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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