--- title: When a project does not work first time, change one thing, test and… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics description: When a project does not work first time, change one thing, test and try again; changing only one thing at a time shows which change made the difference, and engineers learn from failures. Who acts: project, you, changing, change. A sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/25/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Building and making things safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/) / 25 # Building and making things safely, sentence 25 When a project does not work first time, change one thing, test and try again; changing only one thing at a time shows which change made the difference, and engineers learn from failures. **Who acts:** project, you, changing, change, engineers · **What happens:** not work, change, test, try, show, make · **To what, where:** one thing, difference, failures · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the everyday 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 (project, you, changing, change), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:25 # text = When a project does not work first time, change one thing, test and try again; changing only one thing at a time shows which change made the difference, and engineers learn from failures. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 17 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 19 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 27 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 28 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 engineers engineer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 failures failure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | a project | | | | time | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | imperative | you *not said here* | one thing | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 3 | **test** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **change** | gerund | | one thing | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 6 | **show** | present | changing | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **make** | past | which change | the difference | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product | | 8 | **learn** | present | engineers | | | failures | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from failure=Source | 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:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:25`. **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: [Building and making things safely, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/24/) - next →: [Building and making things safely, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/)