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title: Keep your word, correct what you spread, and say sorry for the tone… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep your word, correct what you spread, and say sorry for the tone as well as the fact. Who acts: you, your. 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 8

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Keep your word, correct what you spread, and say sorry for the tone as well as the fact.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** keep, correct, spread, say, word · **To what, where:** word · **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 (you, your), 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:8
# text = Keep your word, correct what you spread, and say sorry for the tone as well as the fact.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	correct	correct	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | your word |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **spread** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: apologize* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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**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:8`.

**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): 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/).

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