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title: A girl in Ohio broke her mum's vase and hid the pieces under her bed… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Ohio broke her mum's vase and hid the pieces under her bed; she later cut her foot on a sharp piece she had forgotten. Who acts: girl. 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 cl
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# Chores and broken things, sentence 20

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A girl in Ohio broke her mum's vase and hid the pieces under her bed; she later cut her foot on a sharp piece she had forgotten.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** break, hide, cut, forget · **To what, where:** vase, pieces, bed, foot, sharp piece

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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 (girl), 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:20
# text = A girl in Ohio broke her mum's vase and hid the pieces under her bed; she later cut her foot on a sharp piece she had forgotten.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	later	later	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **break** | past | a girl in Ohio | girl's mum's vase |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=Patient |
| 2 | **hide** | past | a girl in Ohio *not said here* | the pieces |  | girl's bed |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient under bed=Location |
| 3 | **cut** | past | girl | girl's foot |  | a sharp piece |  | later *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Product |
| 4 | **forget** | past · perfect | girl | a sharp piece *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:20`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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