Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 25
Laughing at your own mistakes makes them easier to admit.
Who acts: Laughing, people, your · What happens: laugh, make, admit, mistake · To what, where: own mistakes, people
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 (Laughing, people, 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 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 makes | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 mistakes | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mistakes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mistakes | amod |
| 5 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Laughing | obl |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 admit | mark |
| 10 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 easier | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | your own mistakes | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Laughing | people | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 3 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mistake | your | nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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:25.
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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