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title: Doing the same fix over and over rarely fixes anything; when the con… — Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi · tree and pragmatics
description: Doing the same fix over and over rarely fixes anything; when the connection keeps failing, ask a grown-up. Who acts: Doing, connection, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi, sentence 15

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Doing the same fix over and over rarely fixes anything; when the connection keeps failing, ask a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** Doing, connection, you · **What happens:** do, fix, keep, fail, ask · **To what, where:** same fix, anything, grown

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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 (Doing, connection, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson:15
# text = Doing the same fix over and over rarely fixes anything; when the connection keeps failing, ask a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
16	failing	fail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
20	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **do** | gerund |  | the same fix |  |  |  | over *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fix=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fix** | present | Doing | anything |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | present | the connection |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fail** | gerund | the connection *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | 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:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson:15`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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