--- title: Accidents can happen even when people are watching, but not paying a… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Accidents can happen even when people are watching, but not paying attention is still something to learn from. Who acts: Accidents, people, paying. 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 dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/) / 6 # When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 6 Accidents can happen even when people are watching, but not paying attention is still something to learn from. **Who acts:** Accidents, people, paying · **What happens:** happen, watch, not pay, be, learn · **To what, where:** attention, something 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 (Accidents, people, paying), 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:6 # text = Accidents can happen even when people are watching, but not paying attention is still something to learn from. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 even even ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj 13 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 18 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | can | Accidents | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **watch** | present · progressive | people | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **pay** | gerund | | attention | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | | 4 | **is a** | present | paying | something | | | still | | tree rules | | 5 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Accidents *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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. 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