--- title: In Aesop's fable the fox can't reach the grapes and says they're sou… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics description: In Aesop's fable the fox can't reach the grapes and says they're sour anyway; saying "I didn't want it anyway" can be a lie to yourself. Who acts: fox, grapes, I, saying. 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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 (fox, grapes, I, saying), 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:8 # text = In Aesop's fable the fox can't reach the grapes and says they're sour anyway; saying "I didn't want it anyway" can be a lie to yourself. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Aesop Aesop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 grapes grape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 17 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 csubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **reach** | can | the fox | the grapes | | Aesop's fable | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent grape=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | grapes *= grape* | | | | | anyway, sour *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | past · do-support | I | fox | | | | anyway *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | can | saying | a lie | yourself | | | | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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