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title: Jack's team lost and he blames the ref, but deep down he knows he mi… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack's team lost and he blames the ref, but deep down he knows he missed an easy pass; Jesus asked why we look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and ignore the plank in our own (Matthew 7:3-5). Who acts: team, Jesus, we. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were 
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# Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 1

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Jack's team lost and he blames the ref, but deep down he knows he missed an easy pass; Jesus asked why we look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and ignore the plank in our own (Matthew 7:3-5).

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**Who acts:** team, Jesus, we · **What happens:** lose, blame, know, miss, ask, look · **To what, where:** ref, easy pass, plank, own · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» 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 (team, Jesus, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:1
# text = Jack's team lost and he blames the ref, but deep down he knows he missed an easy pass; Jesus asked why we look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and ignore the plank in our own (Matthew 7:3-5).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	blames	blame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sawdust	sawdust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	else	else	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
36	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	ignore	ignore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nmod	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
45	Matthew	matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
46	7:3-5	7:3-5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	flat	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Jack's team |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blame** | present | team | the ref |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ref=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | team |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **miss** | past | team | a easy pass |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pass=Stimulus |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **look** | present | we |  |  |  |  | in someone's eye; at the speck of sawdust | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at speck=Theme |
| 7 | **ignore** | present | we *not said here* | the plank |  | our own |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Theme |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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