Debating and discussion, sentence 14
Changing your mind when you hear a better reason is a sign of a good thinker.
Who acts: you, Changing, your · What happens: change, hear, be, mind · To what, where: mind, better reason, sign
This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english 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 (you, Changing, your), 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 | Changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sign | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obj |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Changing | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reason | det |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 reason | amod |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sign | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sign | det |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thinker | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thinker | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thinker | amod |
| 16 | thinker | thinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sign | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | your mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hear | present | you | a better reason | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Changing | a sign | of a good thinker | tree rules | |||
| 4 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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