---
title: Honest self-knowledge goes both ways: don't think you're better than… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Honest self-knowledge goes both ways: don't think you're better than you are, and don't put yourself down either; the prodigal son "came to his senses", and that was the start of his way home. Who acts: Honest self knowledge, you, prodigal son, that. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: a
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/97-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong/4/)

<!-- 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/) / [Honest with yourself: admitting you we…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/97-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong/) / 4

# Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Honest self-knowledge goes both ways: don't think you're better than you are, and don't put yourself down either; the prodigal son "came to his senses", and that was the start of his way home.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Honest self knowledge, you, prodigal son, that, son · **What happens:** go, not think, be, not put down, come, sense · **To what, where:** ways, yourself, senses, start · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Honest self knowledge, you, prodigal son, that), 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:4
# text = Honest self-knowledge goes both ways: don't think you're better than you are, and don't put yourself down either; the prodigal son "came to his senses", and that was the start of his way home.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	ccomp	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	either	either	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	prodigal	prodigal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	senses	sense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obl
45	home	home	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go** | present | Honest self knowledge | both ways |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **put down** | infinitive · do-support |  | yourself |  |  |  | either *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yourself=Goal |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the prodigal son |  |  | son's senses |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sense=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **is a** | past | that | the start |  |  |  | of son's way | tree rules |
| 7 | **sense** *in a quote* |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .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:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:4`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Honest with yourself: admitting you we…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/97-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong/3/)
- next →: [Honest with yourself: admitting you we…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/97-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/97-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong/)

