--- title: A firecracker at someone's door can frighten people and pets badly a… — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics description: A firecracker at someone's door can frighten people and pets badly and damage the house; the police can be called. Who acts: firecracker. 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 ev --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 19 A firecracker at someone's door can frighten people and pets badly and damage the house; the police can be called. **Who acts:** firecracker · **What happens:** frighten, damage, call · **To what, where:** people, house, police · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (firecracker), 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:19 # text = A firecracker at someone's door can frighten people and pets badly and damage the house; the police can be called. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 firecracker firecracker NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 frighten frighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | can | a firecracker at someone's door | people and pets | | | | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | | 2 | **damage** | infinitive | a firecracker at someone's door *not said here* | the house | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 3 | **call** | can · passive | | the police | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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: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): 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. 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