I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 5
Scientists change their minds when the evidence changes; that's a strength, not a weakness.
Who acts: Scientists, evidence, that · What happens: change, be, mind · To what, where: minds, strength
This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths 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 (Scientists, evidence, that), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | nsubj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 minds | nmod:poss |
| 4 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 changes | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evidence | det |
| 7 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changes | nsubj |
| 8 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 change | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 strength | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 strength | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 strength | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 strength | det |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weakness | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 weakness | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 weakness | det |
| 17 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strength | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Scientists | Scientists's minds | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | present | the evidence | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | a strength and a weakness | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind | Scientists = scientist | 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:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:5.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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