--- title: Both things were true at once: accidents can happen even when someon… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Both things were true at once: accidents can happen even when someone is watching, and Dad himself said a nine-year-old should not have been left in charge so long; but Noah also learned to put the phone away when he is looking after someone. Who acts: things, accidents, someone, Dad. 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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 (things, accidents, someone, Dad), 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:2 # text = Both things were true at once: accidents can happen even when someone is watching, and Dad himself said a nine-year-old should not have been left in charge so long; but Noah also learned to put the phone away when he is looking after someone. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:appos 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 22 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux _ _ 30 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 ccomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 also also ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 away away ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 46 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 49 advmod _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 50 after after ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 49 obl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | both things | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | can | accidents | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **watch** | present · progressive | someone | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dad dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **leave** | should · perfect · passive | | a year old | | charge | | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in charge=Location | | 6 | **learn** | past | Noah | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **put away** | to-infinitive | Noah *not said here* | the phone | | | | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal | | 8 | **look** | present · progressive | Noah | | | | after someone | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/1/) - next →: [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/)