--- title: An accident is a mistake with a terrible result, not something done… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: An accident is a mistake with a terrible result, not something done on purpose; "beating yourself up" means blaming yourself again and again. Who acts: accident, mistake. 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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 (accident, mistake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:10 # text = An accident is a mistake with a terrible result, not something done on purpose; "beating yourself up" means blaming yourself again and again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 appos _ _ 13 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 beating beat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 19 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 blaming blame VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp 24 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a accident | a mistake | | | | with a terrible result | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | participle | | | | purpose | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beat up** *in a quote* | gerund | | yourself | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | a mistake | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **blame** *not said to happen* | gerund | a mistake *not said here* | yourself | | | again | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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