--- title: Refusing to admit you are lost or wrong is pride; too much pride mak… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics description: Refusing to admit you are lost or wrong is pride; too much pride makes it hard to ask for help or say sorry. Who acts: Refusing, much pride. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Refusing, much pride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:18 # text = Refusing to admit you are lost or wrong is pride; too much pride makes it hard to ask for help or say sorry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Refusing refuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 admit admit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:cop 6 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lose** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | present | Refusing | pride | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | much pride | | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | much pride *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | much pride *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:18`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Big feelings in big people, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/17/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/)