Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 11

People who are new at something often think they are better at it than they are.

Who acts: People · What happens: be, think · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 (People), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 new	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 new	cop
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 People	acl:relcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 new	obl
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 think	advmod
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 think	ccomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	obl
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 are	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 are	nsubj
16	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	People	something	new property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	People		often property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	people		at person; good property	tree rules
4	does	present	people			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:11.

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): no change. 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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