--- title: Admitting a mistake makes a person easier to trust than someone who… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics description: Admitting a mistake makes a person easier to trust than someone who claims never to make any. Who acts: Admitting. A sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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/455-trusting-again/40/) [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/) / [Trusting again](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/) / 40 # Trusting again, sentence 40 Admitting a mistake makes a person easier to trust than someone who claims never to make any. **Who acts:** Admitting · **What happens:** admit, make, trust, claim, not make · **To what, where:** mistake, person, any This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (Admitting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:40 # text = Admitting a mistake makes a person easier to trust than someone who claims never to make any. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 455-trusting-again.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): no change 1 Admitting admit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obl _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 claims claim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund | | a mistake | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | Admitting | a person | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset person=Product | | 3 | **trust** | to-infinitive | Admitting *not said here* | | | | | than someone | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **make** | to-infinitive | | any | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset any=Product | 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:455-trusting-again.lesson:40`. **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): no change. **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: [Trusting again, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/39/) - next →: [Trusting again, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/41/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/)