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title: Restarting really does fix many glitches, because it clears out a co… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics
description: Restarting really does fix many glitches, because it clears out a computer's muddle; but it can't fix a cracked screen or a broken part. Who acts: Restarting, telly, computer. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 4

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Restarting really does fix many glitches, because it clears out a computer's muddle; but it can't fix a cracked screen or a broken part.

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**Who acts:** Restarting, telly, computer · **What happens:** restart, fix, clear out, not fix, crack, break · **To what, where:** many glitches, muddle, cracked screen

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths 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 (Restarting, telly, computer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:4
# text = Restarting really does fix many glitches, because it clears out a computer's muddle; but it can't fix a cracked screen or a broken part.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Restarting	restart	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	glitches	glitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	clears	clear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	muddle	muddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **restart** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | present · do-support | Restarting | many glitches |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent glitch=Patient |
| 3 | **clear out** | present | telly | a computer's muddle |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent muddle=Source |
| 4 | **not** **fix** | can | telly | a cracked screen or a broken part |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent screen=Patient |
| 5 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **muddle** |  | a computer |  |  |  |  |  | nom muddle «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, 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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