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title: Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud. — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud. Who acts: Ollie, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 6

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Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud.

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**Who acts:** Ollie, Dad · **What happens:** gasp, break, smile · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life 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 (Ollie, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:6
# text = Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gasps	gasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **gasp** | present | Ollie |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **break** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **smile** | present | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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