Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 14
Changing your mind when the evidence is clear is how you learn; it makes you look smart, not silly.
Who acts: evidence, you, your · What happens: change, be, make, look, mind · To what, where: mind, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world 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 (evidence, you, your), 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 | Changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 clear | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 evidence | det |
| 6 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clear | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 clear | cop |
| 8 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Changing | advcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 learn | cop |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 learn | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 learn | nsubj |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 makes | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 look | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 silly | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 silly | advmod |
| 21 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smart | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | your mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the evidence | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | learn property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | present | evidence | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | present | you not said here | smart property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:14.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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