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title: In 2006 astronomers decided Pluto is a dwarf planet, and many people… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2006 astronomers decided Pluto is a dwarf planet, and many people changed their minds because of the new definition. Who acts: astronomers, Pluto, many people, people. A sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 17

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In 2006 astronomers decided Pluto is a dwarf planet, and many people changed their minds because of the new definition.

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**Who acts:** astronomers, Pluto, many people, people · **What happens:** decide, be, change, mind · **To what, where:** 2006, dwarf planet, minds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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 (astronomers, Pluto, many people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:17
# text = In 2006 astronomers decided Pluto is a dwarf planet, and many people changed their minds because of the new definition.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
3	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | astronomers |  |  | 2006 |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Pluto | a dwarf planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | past | many people | people's minds |  |  |  | because the new definition | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 4 | **mind** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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. **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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