--- title: Bulls cannot tell red from green; it is the movement of a cape that… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics description: Bulls cannot tell red from green; it is the movement of a cape that makes them charge. Who acts: Bulls, red, cape. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 9 Bulls cannot tell red from green; it is the movement of a cape that makes them charge. **Who acts:** Bulls, red, cape · **What happens:** not tell, be, make, charge · **To what, where:** red, green, movement · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Bulls, red, cape), 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:9 # text = Bulls cannot tell red from green; it is the movement of a cape that makes them charge. # 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 Bulls bull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 red red NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 charge charge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Bulls | red | | green | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | red | the movement | | | | of a cape | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | a cape | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **charge** | infinitive | Bulls *= bull* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/8/) - next →: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/)