--- title: When something breaks, the real danger is the broken pieces, not bad… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics description: When something breaks, the real danger is the broken pieces, not bad luck: tiny glass slivers fly far and cut bare feet, so you stop, keep others away and tell a grown-up. Who acts: something, real danger, tiny glass slivers, you. 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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, real danger, tiny glass slivers, you), 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:2 # text = When something breaks, the real danger is the broken pieces, not bad luck: tiny glass slivers fly far and cut bare feet, so you stop, keep others away and tell a grown-up. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod 18 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 slivers sliver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 21 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det 37 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | something | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the real danger | the broken pieces and bad luck | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fly** | present | tiny glass slivers | | | | | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cut** | present | tiny glass slivers *not said here* | bare feet | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foot=Product | | 5 | **stop** | present | you | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **keep away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | others | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | tiny glass slivers *not said here* | grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient | 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:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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: [Chores and broken things, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/0/) - next →: [Chores and broken things, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/)