--- title: The trick is not to swing to the opposite myth, as I did when I shou… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics description: The trick is not to swing to the opposite myth, as I did when I shouted "rubbish!" at Grandad: carrots ARE good for eyes, they just don't give you night vision. Who acts: trick, I, carrots. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trick, I, carrots), 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:6 # text = The trick is not to swing to the opposite myth, as I did when I shouted "rubbish!" at Grandad: carrots ARE good for eyes, they just don't give you night vision. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 ARE be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | the trick | | | | | to the opposite myth; swing *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | I | rubbish | | | | at Grandad | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | carrots | | | | | for eyes; good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | carrots *= carrot* | night vision | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient vision=Theme | 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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/5/) - next →: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/)