Respect: how it is earned, sentence 25
Admitting you are not tough, or that you were wrong, often earns more respect than pretending.
Who acts: you, Admitting, more respect · What happens: admit, not be, be, earn, pretend · To what, where: more respect · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» of the everyday 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, Admitting, more respect), 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 | Admitting | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 earns | csubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tough | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tough | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tough | advmod |
| 5 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Admitting | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrong | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrong | cc |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 wrong | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wrong | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrong | cop |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tough | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrong | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 earns | advmod |
| 14 | earns | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 respect | amod |
| 16 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 earns | obj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 pretending | mark |
| 18 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 respect | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 earns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | gerund | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is | present | you | tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | you | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | earn | present | Admitting | more respect | often property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme | |||
| 5 | pretend | gerund | more respect not said here | 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:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:25.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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