--- title: Smart people of all ages change their minds when they see new eviden… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics description: Smart people of all ages change their minds when they see new evidence. Who acts: Smart people, people. 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/24/) [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/) / 24 # Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 24 Smart people of all ages change their minds when they see new evidence. **Who acts:** Smart people, people · **What happens:** change, see, mind · **To what, where:** minds, new evidence 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 (Smart people, people), 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:24 # text = Smart people of all ages change their minds when they see new evidence. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 6 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Smart people of all ages | people's minds | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 2 | **see** | present | people | new evidence | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evidence=Stimulus | | 3 | **mind** | | people | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:24`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Saying "I was wrong" and laughing with…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/23/) - next →: [Saying "I was wrong" and laughing with…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/)