--- title: Saying "I don't know yet, I need to learn more" is honest, and it is… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics description: Saying "I don't know yet, I need to learn more" is honest, and it is fine to wait, read and listen before deciding. Who acts: I, Saying. 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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 (I, Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:9 # text = Saying "I don't know yet, I need to learn more" is honest, and it is fine to wait, read and listen before deciding. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 7 yet yet ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **learn** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | more | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic | | 5 | **is** | present | Saying | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | Saying *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **wait** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **read** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **decide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:politics:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Arguing politely and never calling names, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/8/) - next →: [Arguing politely and never calling names, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/)