--- title: If something ever goes wrong in the air, two tough recorders called… — Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones · tree and pragmatics description: If something ever goes wrong in the air, two tough recorders called the black box help investigators find out why, so that it never happens again. Who acts: something, two tough recorders, it. 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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 (something, two tough recorders, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:6 # text = If something ever goes wrong in the air, two tough recorders called the black box help investigators find out why, so that it never happens again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 4 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 recorders recorder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 15 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 investigators investigator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:xcomp 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | | | the air | ever | wrong *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in air=Location | | 2 | **call** | past | two tough recorders | the black box | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme investigator=Result | | 3 | **find out** | infinitive | two tough recorders *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **happen** | present | it | | | | again | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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): R5-strong ×4, 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. 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