--- title: Things can be replaced; hiding is what makes it worse. — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics description: Things can be replaced; hiding is what makes it worse. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 3 Things can be replaced; hiding is what makes it worse. **What happens:** replace, be, make · **To what, where:** Things, lift 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: 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:3 # text = Things can be replaced; hiding is what makes it worse. # 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): no change 1 Things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 csubj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **replace** | can · passive | | Things | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | hide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | | lift | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/2/) - next →: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/)