--- title: Hiding something you broke usually upsets people more than the break… — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics description: Hiding something you broke usually upsets people more than the breaking itself. Who acts: you, Hiding. A sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Breaking things and hiding the pieces](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/) / 14 # Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 14 Hiding something you broke usually upsets people more than the breaking itself. **Who acts:** you, Hiding · **What happens:** hide, break, upset · **To what, where:** something, people This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 (you, Hiding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:14 # text = Hiding something you broke usually upsets people more than the breaking itself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.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 ×2 1 Hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 upsets upset VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 breaking breaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 12 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 11 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 2 | **break** | past | you | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **upset** | present | Hiding | people | | | | usually *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | 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:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:14`. **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 ×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: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/13/) - next →: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/)