Building and making things safely, sentence 25
When a project does not work first time, change one thing, test and try again; changing only one thing at a time shows which change made the difference, and engineers learn from failures.
Who acts: project, you, changing, change, engineers · What happens: not work, change, test, try, show, make · To what, where: one thing, difference, failures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the everyday 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 (project, you, changing, change), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 work | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 project | det |
| 3 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 work | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 work | advmod |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 change | advcl |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | punct |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thing | nummod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 test | punct |
| 14 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 change | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 try | cc |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 test | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 try | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | punct |
| 19 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 shows | csubj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 thing | nummod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changing | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changing | obl |
| 26 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 try | parataxis |
| 27 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 28 change | det |
| 28 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shows | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 difference | det |
| 31 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 learn | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 learn | cc |
| 34 | engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 learn | nsubj |
| 35 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 shows | conj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 failures | case |
| 37 | failures | failure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 learn | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | present · do-support | a project | time | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | imperative | you not said here | one thing | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | test | infinitive | you not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | try | infinitive | you not said here | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | change | gerund | one thing | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | show | present | changing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | make | past | which change | the difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product | ||||
| 8 | learn | present | engineers | failures | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from failure=Source |
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, 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:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:25.
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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