--- title: Drop a pencil instead; it proves the point just fine. — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics description: Drop a pencil instead; it proves the point just fine. Who acts: you, pencil. 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 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/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/12/) [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/) / [Saying "I was wrong" and laughing with…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/) / 12 # Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 12 Drop a pencil instead; it proves the point just fine. **Who acts:** you, pencil · **What happens:** drop, prove · **To what, where:** pencil, point 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 (you, pencil), 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:12 # text = Drop a pencil instead; it proves the point just fine. # 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): no change 1 Drop drop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 instead instead ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 fine fine ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pencil | | | | instead *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | | 2 | **prove** | present | pencil | the point | | | | fine *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme | 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:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:12`. **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): no change. **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: [Saying "I was wrong" and laughing with…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/11/) - next →: [Saying "I was wrong" and laughing with…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/)