Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 20
Calling clear evidence "fake" just to avoid being wrong is called motivated reasoning.
Who acts: Calling · What happens: call, avoid, be · To what, where: clear evidence, motivated reasoning · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Calling), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evidence | amod |
| 3 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fake | punct |
| 5 | fake | fake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evidence | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fake | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 avoid | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 avoid | mark |
| 9 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Calling | advcl |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wrong | cop |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 avoid | xcomp |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | motivated | motivate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reasoning | amod |
| 15 | reasoning | reasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | clear evidence | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evidence=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | avoid | to-infinitive | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | gerund | wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Calling | motivated reasoning | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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:20.
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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