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title: Correcting someone in front of everyone often hurts more than the mi… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics
description: Correcting someone in front of everyone often hurts more than the mistake itself. Who acts: Correcting. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 16

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Correcting someone in front of everyone often hurts more than the mistake itself.

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**Who acts:** Correcting · **What happens:** correct, hurt · **To what, where:** someone, front, more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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 (Correcting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:16
# text = Correcting someone in front of everyone often hurts more than the mistake itself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Correcting	correct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  | someone |  | front of everyone |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | Correcting | more |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Patient |

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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.

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**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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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