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title: A cracked or chipped glass or mug should not be used, because it can… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics
description: A cracked or chipped glass or mug should not be used, because it can break in your hand or leave glass in a drink. Who acts: glass. A sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chores and broken things, sentence 16

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A cracked or chipped glass or mug should not be used, because it can break in your hand or leave glass in a drink.

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**Who acts:** glass · **What happens:** crack, chip, not use, break, leave · **To what, where:** cracked glass, hand, glass, drink

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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 (glass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:16
# text = A cracked or chipped glass or mug should not be used, because it can break in your hand or leave glass in a drink.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 111-chores-and-broken-things.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	chipped	chip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mug	mug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **use** | should · passive |  | a cracked glass or mug |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **break** | can | glass |  |  | your hand |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive | glass *not said here* | glass |  | a drink |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Theme in drink=Location |

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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): no change. **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/).

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