--- title: Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix,… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix, while hiding them tends to make them bigger. Who acts: Everyone, owning, mistakes, hiding. A sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/16/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Being a good grown-up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/) / 16 # Being a good grown-up, sentence 16 Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix, while hiding them tends to make them bigger. **Who acts:** Everyone, owning, mistakes, hiding · **What happens:** make, own up, fix, hide, tend · **To what, where:** mistakes This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» 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 (Everyone, owning, mistakes, hiding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:16 # text = Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix, while hiding them tends to make them bigger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 040-being-a-good-grown-up.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 tends tend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Everyone | mistakes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | | 2 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | quickly *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **make** | present | owning | mistakes *= mistake* | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 4 | **fix** | to-infinitive | mistakes *= mistake* *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hide** | gerund | | mistakes *= mistake* | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **tend** | present | hiding | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | hiding *not said here* | mistakes *= mistake* | | | | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:16`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Being a good grown-up, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/14/) - next →: [Our street: who parked where and who w…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)