--- title: Sometimes the wise words are "you were right", sometimes "you're bot… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes the wise words are "you were right", sometimes "you're both sort of right", and sometimes "it doesn't matter, want to play?" Who acts: wise words, you, it. 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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 (wise words, you, it), 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:6 # text = Sometimes the wise words are "you were right", sometimes "you're both sort of right", and sometimes "it doesn't matter, want to play?" # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 17 advmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 34 " " 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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the wise words | | | | | right, sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | both sort | | | | of right; sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | it | | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **play** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [Friends who cling to a legend, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/4/) - next →: [Friends who cling to a legend, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/)