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# Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 11

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When a partner makes a mistake, you help them see it kindly, without making them feel bad, because kind help makes people willing to keep trying.

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**Who acts:** partner, you, parents, kind help, people · **What happens:** make, help, see, feel, keep, try · **To what, where:** mistake, parents, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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 (partner, you, parents, kind help), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:11
# text = When a partner makes a mistake, you help them see it kindly, without making them feel bad, because kind help makes people willing to keep trying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | a partner | a mistake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
| 2 | **help** | present | you | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | mistake |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | present | kind help | people |  |  |  | willing *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **try** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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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