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title: People tend to take credit for their wins and blame outside things f… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: People tend to take credit for their wins and blame outside things for their losses; admitting your own part is how you get better. Who acts: People, admitting, you. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 6

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People tend to take credit for their wins and blame outside things for their losses; admitting your own part is how you get better.

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**Who acts:** People, admitting, you · **What happens:** tend, take, blame, admit, be, get · **To what, where:** credit, own part

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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 (People, admitting, 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:6
# text = People tend to take credit for their wins and blame outside things for their losses; admitting your own part is how you get better.
# 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 ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wins	win	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	admitting	admit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | credit |  |  |  | for People's wins | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument credit=Theme thing=Destination |
| 3 | **blame** | infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for People's losses | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for loss=Attribute |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund |  | your own part |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present | admitting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | present | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **win** |  | People |  |  |  |  |  | nom win «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R5-strong ×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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