--- title: Teachers know a lot, but they are people, and some of them learned m… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Teachers know a lot, but they are people, and some of them learned myths at school too: "glass is a liquid", "bats are blind", "lightning never strikes twice". Who acts: Teachers, some, glass, bats. 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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 (Teachers, some, glass, bats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:0 # text = Teachers know a lot, but they are people, and some of them learned myths at school too: "glass is a liquid", "bats are blind", "lightning never strikes twice". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 38 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 37 advmod _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Teachers | a lot | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Teachers *= teacher* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | past | some | myths | | school | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | glass | a liquid | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bats | | | | | blind *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **strike** *in a quote* | present | lightning | | | | | twice *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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. 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