--- title: Accidents told too late — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Accidents told too late», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: An accident is not a sin; hiding it can grow into one. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/) [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/) / Accidents told too late # Accidents told too late Lesson 343 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 25 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/0/) — An accident is not a sin; hiding it can grow into one. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/1/) — Leo in Vancouver sat on Grandad's glasses, bent them, and put them back in the case. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/2/) — Grandad couldn't read his paper the next morning and had to go to the optician. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/3/) — Leo owned up, said sorry, and read the paper aloud to Grandad every morning until the new glasses came. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/4/) — Making amends can be a kind thing you do, not only money. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/5/) — Leo let the bath overflow while he played a game, mopped it with towels and hid them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/6/) — Nobody noticed — until a wet patch spread across the ceiling downstairs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/8/) — Told straight away, the water would have gone no further. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/9/) — Now Leo sets a timer when the bath runs. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/10/) — Some things stay hidden for months. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/11/) — Leo broke the garden gnome with his bat and buried the pieces with his friend, laughing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/12/) — He got away with it all winter and nearly forgot — then Dad dug the pieces up planting tomatoes in spring. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/13/) — Dad laughed at the gnome, but not at the hiding. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/14/) — The goldfish is the sad one: Leo didn't clean the water, the fish got ill and died. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/15/) — He told Mum the truth, they buried it together, and he looks after the new fish every week. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/16/) — A mess, a spill or a sick pet is easiest to fix when it is fresh — so tell at once. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/17/) — Most accidents are easy to forgive; hiding them is what causes trouble. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/18/) — A spill or stain is much easier to clean while it is fresh than after it has dried. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/19/) — Water from an overflowing bath can soak through the floor and damage the ceiling below. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/20/) — A fish needs clean water; dirty water can make it ill and kill it. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/21/) — Looking after a pet is a daily job you cannot skip. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/22/) — A broken toilet handle or leak should be told at once so it can be fixed before it gets worse; hidden, the next person can't flush and a plumber must be called. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/23/) — Swapping a broken thing for yours without saying so is a trick, not a fix. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/24/) — Making amends can be time and kindness, like reading to someone whose glasses you broke. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/25/) — Things that are hidden usually turn up in the end, sometimes months later. - ← previous: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/) - next →: [Putting the blame on someone else](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)