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title: These things are worrying, but they are almost never anyone's fault… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: These things are worrying, but they are almost never anyone's fault at home, and most families get through them. Who acts: things, most families. A sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# When work goes wrong, sentence 3

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These things are worrying, but they are almost never anyone's fault at home, and most families get through them.

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**Who acts:** things, most families · **What happens:** worry, not be, get · **To what, where:** fault, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» of the adult life 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 (things, most families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:3
# text = These things are worrying, but they are almost never anyone's fault at home, and most families get through them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 004-when-work-goes-wrong.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	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	worrying	worry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worry** | present · progressive | this things |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | things *= thing* | anyone's fault |  | home |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | most families |  |  |  |  | through things *= thing* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through they=Destination |

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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:adult-life:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:3`.

**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/).

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