--- title: When you are not sure if you did something wrong, asking is better t… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics description: When you are not sure if you did something wrong, asking is better than guessing, because the worry is often much bigger than what happened. Who acts: you, asking, worry. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, asking, worry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:9 # text = When you are not sure if you did something wrong, asking is better than guessing, because the worry is often much bigger than what happened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 091-worry-and-sadness.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 5 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 15 than than SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 much much ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 advcl _ _ 25 than than SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **guess** | gerund | asking *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | the worry | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Worry and sadness, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/8/) - next →: [Worry and sadness, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/)