--- title: If you break something by accident, owning up is better than running… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: If you break something by accident, owning up is better than running away; running away makes you look guiltier. Who acts: you, owning, running. A sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/34/) [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/) / [The ball over the fence and the grumpy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/) / 34 # The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 34 If you break something by accident, owning up is better than running away; running away makes you look guiltier. **Who acts:** you, owning, running · **What happens:** break, own up, be, run away, make, look · **To what, where:** something, you This is a sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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 (you, owning, running), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:34 # text = If you break something by accident, owning up is better than running away; running away makes you look guiltier. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 12 than than SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 xcomp _ _ 21 guiltier guilty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | something | | | | by accident | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient | | 2 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is** | present | owning | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **run away** | gerund | owning *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **run away** | gerund | | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | running | you | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | guilty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:34`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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