I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 6

The trick is not to swing to the opposite myth, as I did when I shouted "rubbish!" at Grandad: carrots ARE good for eyes, they just don't give you night vision.

Who acts: trick, I, carrots · What happens: not be, shout, be, not give · To what, where: rubbish, night vision, you

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 (trick, I, carrots), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swing	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 swing	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 swing	mark
6	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 myth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 myth	det
9	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 myth	amod
10	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 did	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swing	advcl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 shouted	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 shouted	nsubj
17	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 did	advcl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 rubbish	punct
19	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shouted	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 rubbish	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 rubbish	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 Grandad	case
23	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 shouted	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
25	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 good	nsubj
26	ARE	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 good	cop
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swing	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 good	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
32	just	just	ADV	_	35 give	advmod
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 give	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 give	advmod
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swing	conj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 vision	compound
38	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the trick			to the opposite myth; swing property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	I	rubbish		at Grandad	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Topic
3	is	present	carrots			for eyes; good property	tree rules
4	not give	present · do-support	carrots = carrot	night vision	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient vision=Theme

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:6.

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. 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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