--- title: Saying "I was wrong" quickly saves time and grumpiness, and then you… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics description: Saying "I was wrong" quickly saves time and grumpiness, and then you can fix the problem, like going to another shop. Who acts: I, Saying, you. 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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 (I, Saying, you), 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:15 # text = Saying "I was wrong" quickly saves time and grumpiness, and then you can fix the problem, like going to another shop. # 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 ×3 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 grumpiness grumpiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 then then ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 like like SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **save** | present | Saying | | | | time | quickly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fix** | can | you | the problem | | | then | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 5 | **go** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | another shop | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial\_Location | 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:15`. **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 ×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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