--- title: "Got" passives like "The window got broke" are informal or dialect;… — Active and passive voice, modal verbs · tree and pragmatics description: "Got" passives like "The window got broke" are informal or dialect; Standard English writes "The window was broken" or, less formally, "got broken". Who acts: window, Got passives, Standard. 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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 (window, Got passives, Standard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:12 # text = "Got" passives like "The window got broke" are informal or dialect; Standard English writes "The window was broken" or, less formally, "got broken". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Got Got PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 passives passive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 10 broke broke ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 informal informal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 29 formally formally ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 32 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | the window | Got passives *not said here* | | | | broke *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer passive=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Got passives | | | | | informal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **write** | present | Standard | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the window | | | | | broken *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Standard *not said here* | | | | | less *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **break** *in a quote* | participle | the window *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:english:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:12`. **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, 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: [Active and passive voice, modal verbs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/11/) - next →: [Active and passive voice, modal verbs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/)