--- title: Owning up to a mistake quickly usually leads to less trouble than hi… — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics description: Owning up to a mistake quickly usually leads to less trouble than hiding it. Who acts: Owning, less trouble. A sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/20/) [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/) / [Mistakes, asking for help and saying no](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/) / 20 # Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 20 Owning up to a mistake quickly usually leads to less trouble than hiding it. **Who acts:** Owning, less trouble · **What happens:** own up, lead, hide · **To what, where:** trouble This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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 (Owning, less trouble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:20 # text = Owning up to a mistake quickly usually leads to less trouble than hiding it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Owning own VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 than than SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | to a mistake; quickly *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **lead** | present | Owning | | | | | to less trouble; usually *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to trouble=Patient | | 3 | **hide** | gerund | less trouble *not said here* | trouble | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:20`. **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 ×1, 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: [Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/19/) - next →: [Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/)