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title: Forgetting things is normal; a system such as a notes page or a remi… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgetting things is normal; a system such as a notes page or a reminder board on the fridge helps more than blaming yourself. Who acts: Forgetting, system. A sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 12

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Forgetting things is normal; a system such as a notes page or a reminder board on the fridge helps more than blaming yourself.

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**Who acts:** Forgetting, system · **What happens:** forget, be, help, blame · **To what, where:** things, more, yourself

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» of the reflection 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 (Forgetting, system), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:12
# text = Forgetting things is normal; a system such as a notes page or a reminder board on the fridge helps more than blaming yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	reminder	reminder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:acl
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **forget** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Forgetting |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | present | a system such a notes page or a reminder board on the fridge | more |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **blame** | gerund | a system such a notes page or a reminder board on the fridge *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |

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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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**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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:12`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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