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title: The difference between a good thinker and a stuck one is what happen… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics
description: The difference between a good thinker and a stuck one is what happens next: "OK, I was wrong, that's actually cool" or "Nah, that's fake." Who acts: I, that. A sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 1

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The difference between a good thinker and a stuck one is what happens next: "OK, I was wrong, that's actually cool" or "Nah, that's fake."

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** happen, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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 (I, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:1
# text = The difference between a good thinker and a stuck one is what happens next: "OK, I was wrong, that's actually cool" or "Nah, that's fake."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thinker	thinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	next	next	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
17	OK	ok	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
30	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	34	discourse	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
33	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | actually, cool *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | fake *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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