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title: A girl in Texas broke her neighbour's window with a ball and hid; wh… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Texas broke her neighbour's window with a ball and hid; when it came out, the neighbour was more hurt by the hiding than the window, and it took a long time to make friends again. Who acts: girl, window, hiding, it. A sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning 
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# Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 26

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A girl in Texas broke her neighbour's window with a ball and hid; when it came out, the neighbour was more hurt by the hiding than the window, and it took a long time to make friends again.

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**Who acts:** girl, window, hiding, it · **What happens:** break, hide, come out, hurt, take, make · **To what, where:** window, neighbour, friends

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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, window, hiding, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:26
# text = A girl in Texas broke her neighbour's window with a ball and hid; when it came out, the neighbour was more hurt by the hiding than the window, and it took a long time to make friends again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.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	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	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	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | a girl in Texas | girl's neighbour's window |  |  |  | with a ball | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent window=Patient with ball=Instrument |
| 2 | **hide** | past | a girl in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come out** | past | window |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hurt** | past · passive | the hiding than the window | the neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | past | it |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | friends |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |

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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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:26`.

**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.

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