--- title: A question asked privately, politely and with evidence is far more l… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics description: A question asked privately, politely and with evidence is far more likely to be welcomed than a public "you're wrong". Who acts: question, you. 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 --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 17 A question asked privately, politely and with evidence is far more likely to be welcomed than a public "you're wrong". **Who acts:** question, you · **What happens:** ask, be, welcome · **To what, where:** question · **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 (question, you), 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:17 # text = A question asked privately, politely and with evidence is far more likely to be welcomed than a public "you're wrong". # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 privately privately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 6 politely politely ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 welcomed welcome VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | | a question *not said here* | | | | privately *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a question | | | | | with evidence; likely, politely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **welcome** | to-infinitive · passive | a question *not said here* | | | | | than a public | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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 ×1, 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: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/16/) - next →: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/)