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title: No tool is perfect, so the two steps still matter, and an accident n… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics
description: No tool is perfect, so the two steps still matter, and an accident never changes who you are. Who acts: tool, two steps, accident, you. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 10

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No tool is perfect, so the two steps still matter, and an accident never changes who you are.

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**Who acts:** tool, two steps, accident, you · **What happens:** be, matter, not change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (tool, two steps, accident, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:10
# text = No tool is perfect, so the two steps still matter, and an accident never changes who you are.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.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	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **is** | present | no tool |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **matter** | present | the two steps |  |  |  | still |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **change** | present | a accident |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:10`.

**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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