--- title: Saying «I don't understand» is honest and brave, and «Thanks, but I… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics description: Saying «I don't understand» is honest and brave, and «Thanks, but I can't come» is a polite no that needs no made-up excuse. Who acts: I, Saying, polite no. 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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 (I, Saying, polite no), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:3 # text = Saying «I don't understand» is honest and brave, and «Thanks, but I can't come» is a polite no that needs no made-up excuse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 15 Thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 discourse _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 csubj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 no no NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 30 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:compound 33 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | Saying | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Saying *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can | I | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | Saying *not said here* | a polite no | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **need** | present | a polite no | no made excuse | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot excuse=Theme | | 8 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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