--- title: Explaining why you did something wrong does not make it right, but i… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics description: Explaining why you did something wrong does not make it right, but it helps adults understand and help. Who acts: you, Explaining, Fighting, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Speaking up is bravery too](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/) / 25 # Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 25 Explaining why you did something wrong does not make it right, but it helps adults understand and help. **Who acts:** you, Explaining, Fighting, adults · **What happens:** explain, do, not make, help, understand · **To what, where:** something, Fighting This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday 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 (you, Explaining, Fighting, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:25 # text = Explaining why you did something wrong does not make it right, but it helps adults understand and help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Explaining explain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | past | you | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Explaining | Fighting | | | | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **help** | present | Fighting | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **understand** | infinitive | adults | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **help** | infinitive | adults *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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): 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: [Speaking up is bravery too, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/24/) - next →: [Speaking up is bravery too, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/)