---
title: Saying "we had not considered that" impresses more than bluffing. — Mock ethics olympiad · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying "we had not considered that" impresses more than bluffing. Who acts: we, Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Mock ethics olympiad» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Mock ethics olympiad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/) / 12

# Mock ethics olympiad, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Saying "we had not considered that" impresses more than bluffing.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** we, Saying · **What happens:** say, not consider, impress · **To what, where:** that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mock ethics olympiad» of the religion ethics 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 (we, Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:050-mock-ethics-olympiad.lesson:12
# text = Saying "we had not considered that" impresses more than bluffing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 050-mock-ethics-olympiad.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
9	impresses	impress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bluffing	bluff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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** **consider** *in a quote* | past · perfect | we | that |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute |
| 3 | **impress** | present | Saying |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:religion-ethics:050-mock-ethics-olympiad.lesson:12`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Mock ethics olympiad, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/11/)
- next →: [Mock ethics olympiad, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/13/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/)

