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title: Everybody makes mistakes, even teachers; a girl in Perth who knocks… — Tests, exams and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody makes mistakes, even teachers; a girl in Perth who knocks over a glass jar tells the teacher straight away, so it can be cleaned up safely, and she is respected for owning up. Who acts: Everybody, girl. A sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Tests, exams and mistakes, sentence 4

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Everybody makes mistakes, even teachers; a girl in Perth who knocks over a glass jar tells the teacher straight away, so it can be cleaned up safely, and she is respected for owning up.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, girl · **What happens:** make, knock over, tell, clean up, respected, own up · **To what, where:** mistakes, glass jar, teacher, girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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 (Everybody, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:4
# text = Everybody makes mistakes, even teachers; a girl in Perth who knocks over a glass jar tells the teacher straight away, so it can be cleaned up safely, and she is respected for owning up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Everybody	everybody	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	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Perth	Perth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:cop
35	respected	respected	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Everybody | mistakes and teachers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
| 2 | **knock over** | present | a girl in Perth | a glass jar |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a girl in Perth |  | the teacher |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 4 | **clean up** | can · passive |  | teacher |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **respected** | present · passive |  | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:4`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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