--- title: Aristotle said the boaster claims more than is true and the falsely… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Aristotle said the boaster claims more than is true and the falsely modest claim less; the truthful person is in the middle. Who acts: Aristotle, boaster, truthful person. 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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 (Aristotle, boaster, truthful person), 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:11 # text = Aristotle said the boaster claims more than is true and the falsely modest claim less; the truthful person is in the middle. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Aristotle Aristotle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boaster boaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 claims claim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 falsely falsely ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 modest modest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 truthful truthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aristotle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | the boaster | more | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | the boaster *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the truthful person | | | the middle | | | tree rules | 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:religion-ethics:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:11`. **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. **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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