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title: Many people hurt in earthquakes are hit by falling things or cut by… — Breakfast, the school day and honest homework · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people hurt in earthquakes are hit by falling things or cut by glass while trying to run. Who acts: falling things. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 19

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Many people hurt in earthquakes are hit by falling things or cut by glass while trying to run.

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**Who acts:** falling things · **What happens:** hurt, hit, fall, cut, try, run · **To what, where:** Many people, earthquakes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 (falling things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:19
# text = Many people hurt in earthquakes are hit by falling things or cut by glass while trying to run.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **hurt** | participle |  | Many people *not said here* |  | earthquakes |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hit** | present · passive | falling things | Many people |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cut** | participle | falling things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by glass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **try** | gerund | falling things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | falling things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:19`.

**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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