--- title: Running an "if" backwards is a mistake grown-ups call affirming the… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics description: Running an "if" backwards is a mistake grown-ups call affirming the consequent. Who acts: Running, mistake. A sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/11/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["If... then..." and its traps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/) / 11 # "If... then..." and its traps, sentence 11 Running an "if" backwards is a mistake grown-ups call affirming the consequent. **Who acts:** Running, mistake · **What happens:** run, be, grow, call, affirm · **To what, where:** mistake, consequent · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world 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 (Running, mistake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:11 # text = Running an "if" backwards is a mistake grown-ups call affirming the consequent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 backwards backward ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 13 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 affirming affirm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 consequent consequent NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | backward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Running | a mistake | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | present | a mistake *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **affirm** | gerund | | the consequent | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consequent=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:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["If... then..." and its traps, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/10/) - next →: ["If... then..." and its traps, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/)