--- title: A good teacher who isn't sure says "I'll check", and thanks the pupi… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics description: A good teacher who isn't sure says "I'll check", and thanks the pupil who asked. Who acts: good teacher, pupil. A sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/16/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [When the teacher gets it wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/) / 16 # When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 16 A good teacher who isn't sure says "I'll check", and thanks the pupil who asked. **Who acts:** good teacher, pupil · **What happens:** not be, say, check, thank, ask · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 (good teacher, pupil), 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:16 # text = A good teacher who isn't sure says "I'll check", and thanks the pupil who asked. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 thanks thank VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | a good teacher | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a good teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **check** *in a quote* | future | a good teacher *= teacher* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | the pupil | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the pupil | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/15/) - next →: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/)