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title: Owning up often helps others learn. — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up often helps others learn. Who acts: Owning, others. A sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 4

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Owning up often helps others learn.

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**Who acts:** Owning, others · **What happens:** own up, help, learn · **To what, where:** others

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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 (Owning, others), 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:4
# text = Owning up often helps others learn.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **help** | present | Owning | others |  |  |  | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:4`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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