--- title: "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics description: "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice" (Proverbs 12:15); the Greek thinker Socrates said wisdom begins with knowing what you don't know. Who acts: way, wise, Greek thinker, wisdom. 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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 (way, wise, Greek thinker, wisdom), 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:7 # text = "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice" (Proverbs 12:15); the Greek thinker Socrates said wisdom begins with knowing what you don't know. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 fools fool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ _ 14 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Proverbs proverb PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 appos _ _ 20 12:15 12:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 24 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod 25 thinker thinker NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 26 Socrates Socrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 30 with with SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 obj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | the way of fools | | | | | right *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **listen** *in a quote* | present | the wise | | | | | to advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Greek thinker | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **begin** | present | wisdom | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **know** | gerund | wisdom *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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