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title: When a parent cancels plans after a real problem, fixing the problem… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: When a parent cancels plans after a real problem, fixing the problem works better than blaming the parent. Who acts: parent, fixing. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 36

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When a parent cancels plans after a real problem, fixing the problem works better than blaming the parent.

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**Who acts:** parent, fixing · **What happens:** cancel, fix, work, blame · **To what, where:** plans, problem, parent

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 (parent, fixing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:36
# text = When a parent cancels plans after a real problem, fixing the problem works better than blaming the parent.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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 ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cancels	cancel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** | present | a parent | plans |  |  | after a real problem |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | gerund |  | the problem |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | present | fixing |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blame** | gerund | fixing *not said here* | the parent |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme |

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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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:36`.

**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 ×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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