--- title: Calling clear evidence "fake" just to avoid being wrong is called mo… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics description: Calling clear evidence "fake" just to avoid being wrong is called motivated reasoning. Who acts: Calling. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 20 Calling clear evidence "fake" just to avoid being wrong is called motivated reasoning. **Who acts:** Calling · **What happens:** call, avoid, be · **To what, where:** clear evidence, motivated reasoning · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Calling), 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:20 # text = Calling clear evidence "fake" just to avoid being wrong is called motivated reasoning. # 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 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj:pass _ _ 2 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 fake fake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 motivated motivate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 reasoning reasoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund | | clear evidence | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evidence=Recipient | | 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Calling | motivated reasoning | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | 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:20`. **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. 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