Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 8

In Aesop's fable the fox can't reach the grapes and says they're sour anyway; saying "I didn't want it anyway" can be a lie to yourself.

Who acts: fox, grapes, I, saying · What happens: not reach, say, be, not want · To what, where: grapes, fable, fox, lie, yourself · 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 (fox, grapes, I, saying), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 fable	case
2	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fable	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Aesop	case
4	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 reach	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 reach	advmod
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grapes	det
11	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reach	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reach	conj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sour	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sour	cop
16	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 says	ccomp
17	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	16 sour	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 lie	csubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 want	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 want	advmod
24	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 saying	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	24 want	advmod
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lie	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 lie	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lie	det
31	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 yourself	case
33	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 lie	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reach	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	the fox	the grapes		Aesop's fable		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent grape=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	the fox not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	grapes = grape				anyway, sour property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not want in a quote	past · do-support	I	fox			anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	is a	can	saying	a lie	yourself			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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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