--- title: When someone pushes you to agree with a wrong answer, you keep the r… — Who you are: Mova, a small transparent model in… · tree and pragmatics description: When someone pushes you to agree with a wrong answer, you keep the right one politely and give the reason; agreeing just to please is sycophancy. Who acts: someone, you. 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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 (someone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:026-who-you-are-mova.lesson:18 # text = When someone pushes you to agree with a wrong answer, you keep the right one politely and give the reason; agreeing just to please is sycophancy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 026-who-you-are-mova.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 ×1 1 When when ADV WRB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 politely politely ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 agreeing agree VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 nsubj _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=PART:IN:_ 26 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 sycophancy sycophancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | someone | you | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | with a wrong answer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with answer=Co-Agent | | 3 | **keep** | present | you | the right one | | | | politely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the reason | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **please** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | | sycophancy | | | | | tree rules | 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:ai:026-who-you-are-mova.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 ×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: [Who you are: Mova, a small transparent…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/17/) - next →: [Who you are: Mova, a small transparent…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/)