--- title: In science, experiments often fail the first time; explaining why it… — Disappointed: when things don't go the way you h… · tree and pragmatics description: In science, experiments often fail the first time; explaining why it failed is real science too, called trial and error. Who acts: experiments, science, explaining, real science. 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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 (experiments, science, explaining, real science), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:025-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped.lesson:16 # text = In science, experiments often fail the first time; explaining why it failed is real science too, called trial and error. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 025-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped.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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 explaining explain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 21 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 error error NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fail** | present | experiments | | | science | time | often *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in science=Eventuality | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fail** | past | science | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | explaining | real science | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | participle | real science *not said here* | trial and error | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:025-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped.lesson:16`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Disappointed: when things don't go the…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/25-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped/15/) - next →: [Disappointed: when things don't go the…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/25-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/25-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped/)