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title: A near miss is when something bad almost happens; the brain keeps re… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: A near miss is when something bad almost happens; the brain keeps replaying "what could have happened" as a warning to be careful, not as a punishment. Who acts: near miss, something, brain. A sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» of the reflection course of Mo
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# When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 16

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A near miss is when something bad almost happens; the brain keeps replaying "what could have happened" as a warning to be careful, not as a punishment.

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**Who acts:** near miss, something, brain · **What happens:** be, happen, keep, replay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (near miss, something, brain), 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:16
# text = A near miss is when something bad almost happens; the brain keeps replaying "what could have happened" as a warning to be careful, not as a punishment.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	replaying	replay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **be** | present | a near miss |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | present | something |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | present | the brain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **replay** | gerund | the brain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a warning and a punishment | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** *in a quote* | could · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |

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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. **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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