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title: When something goes wrong, small things you can fix; big things need… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: When something goes wrong, small things you can fix; big things need a grown-up. Who acts: something, you, big things. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 27

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When something goes wrong, small things you can fix; big things need a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** something, you, big things · **What happens:** go, fix, need, grow · **To what, where:** small things, up

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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 (something, you, big things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:27
# text = When something goes wrong, small things you can fix; big things need a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **go** | present | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fix** | can | you | small things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | big things | a up |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot up=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:27`.

**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 ×2, 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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