--- title: Admitting you are not tough, or that you were wrong, often earns mor… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics description: Admitting you are not tough, or that you were wrong, often earns more respect than pretending. Who acts: you, Admitting, more respect. A sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/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/) / [Respect: how it is earned](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/) / 25 # Respect: how it is earned, sentence 25 Admitting you are not tough, or that you were wrong, often earns more respect than pretending. **Who acts:** you, Admitting, more respect · **What happens:** admit, not be, be, earn, pretend · **To what, where:** more respect · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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, Admitting, more respect), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:25 # text = Admitting you are not tough, or that you were wrong, often earns more respect than pretending. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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 1 Admitting admit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 earns earn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | you | | | | | tough *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | you | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **earn** | present | Admitting | more respect | | | | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme | | 5 | **pretend** | gerund | more respect *not said here* | | | | | | 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:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Respect: how it is earned, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/24/) - next →: [Respect: how it is earned, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/)