--- title: Scientists change their minds when the evidence changes; that's a st… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists change their minds when the evidence changes; that's a strength, not a weakness. Who acts: Scientists, evidence, that. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/5/) [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/) / [I was wrong: changing your mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/) / 5 # I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 5 Scientists change their minds when the evidence changes; that's a strength, not a weakness. **Who acts:** Scientists, evidence, that · **What happens:** change, be, mind · **To what, where:** minds, strength 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 (Scientists, evidence, that), 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:5 # text = Scientists change their minds when the evidence changes; that's a strength, not a weakness. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 weakness weakness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Scientists | Scientists's minds | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 2 | **change** | present | the evidence | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | a strength and a weakness | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mind** | | Scientists *= scientist* | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/4/) - next →: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/)