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title: A man at an airport in Dublin joked that his bag had a bomb in it; t… — Airports and planes · tree and pragmatics
description: A man at an airport in Dublin joked that his bag had a bomb in it; the flight was stopped, he was arrested and his whole family missed their holiday. Who acts: man, bag, whole family. A sentence of the lesson «Airports and planes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Airports and planes, sentence 16

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A man at an airport in Dublin joked that his bag had a bomb in it; the flight was stopped, he was arrested and his whole family missed their holiday.

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**Who acts:** man, bag, whole family · **What happens:** joke, have, stop, arrest, miss · **To what, where:** bomb, flight, man, holiday · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports and planes» 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 (man, bag, whole family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:271-airports-and-planes.lesson:16
# text = A man at an airport in Dublin joked that his bag had a bomb in it; the flight was stopped, he was arrested and his whole family missed their holiday.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 271-airports-and-planes.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	joked	joke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **joke** *speech: other* | past | a man at a airport in Dublin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | man's bag | a bomb |  | bomb |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bomb=Patient |
| 3 | **stop** | past · passive |  | the flight |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **arrest** | past · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **miss** | past | man's whole family | flights's holiday |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer holiday=Stimulus |

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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:271-airports-and-planes.lesson:16`.

**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. **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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