Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 7

"The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice" (Proverbs 12:15); the Greek thinker Socrates said wisdom begins with knowing what you don't know.

Who acts: way, wise, Greek thinker, wisdom, you · What happens: seem, listen, say, begin, know, not know · 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 (way, wise, Greek thinker, wisdom), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seems	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fools	case
5	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 way	nmod
6	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seems	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 right	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wise	det
13	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 listen	nsubj
14	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seems	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 advice	case
16	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 advice	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 Proverbs	punct
19	Proverbs	proverb	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 advice	appos
20	12:15	12:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 Proverbs	flat
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 Proverbs	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thinker	det
24	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thinker	amod
25	thinker	thinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
26	Socrates	Socrates	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 thinker	appos
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	conj
28	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 begins	nsubj
29	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
30	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 knowing	mark
31	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 begins	advcl
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 know	obj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 knowing	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem in a quote	present	the way of fools	right property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	listen in a quote	present	the wise	to advice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Greek thinker		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	begin	present	wisdom		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	know	gerund	wisdom not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not know	present · do-support	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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:7.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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