--- title: Saying "I was wrong" costs one second and makes you wiser, like Madd… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Saying "I was wrong" costs one second and makes you wiser, like Maddie saying, "Oh, you're right, whales are mammals!" Who acts: I, Saying, Maddie, you. 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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, Maddie, you), 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:2 # text = Saying "I was wrong" costs one second and makes you wiser, like Maddie saying, "Oh, you're right, whales are mammals!" # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 wiser wise ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 acl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 20 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 24 discourse _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 parataxis _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 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 | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cost** | present | Saying | | | | second | like Maddie | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | Saying *not said here* | you | | | | wise *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | Maddie *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | whales | mammals | | | | | 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:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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