Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 2
Saying "I was wrong" costs one second and makes you wiser, like Maddie saying, "Oh, you're right, whales are mammals!"
Who acts: I, Saying, Maddie, you, whales · What happens: say, be, cost, make · To what, where: you, mammals · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics 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, Maddie, you), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 costs | 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 7 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 second | nummod |
| 9 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 costs | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 makes | cc |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 costs | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Maddie | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 Maddie | case |
| 16 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 costs | obl |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Maddie | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 right | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 right | punct |
| 20 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 right | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Oh | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 right | nsubj |
| 23 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mammals | punct |
| 26 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mammals | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mammals | cop |
| 28 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 right | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 costs | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 costs | 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 | cost | present | Saying | second | like Maddie | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | present | Saying not said here | you | wise property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 5 | say speech: express | gerund | Maddie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | you | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | whales | mammals | 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:religion-ethics:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:2.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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