--- title: Bored on a dark evening and egged on by older boys, he threw a firec… — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics description: Bored on a dark evening and egged on by older boys, he threw a firecracker at old Mrs Reid's door. Who acts: Glasgow. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 5 Bored on a dark evening and egged on by older boys, he threw a firecracker at old Mrs Reid's door. **Who acts:** Glasgow · **What happens:** bore, egg on, throw · **To what, where:** firecracker, old door 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 (Glasgow), 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:5 # text = Bored on a dark evening and egged on by older boys, he threw a firecracker at old Mrs Reid's door. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Bored bore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 egged egg VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 8 on on ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 firecracker firecracker NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 19 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 Reid Reid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 22 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bore** | participle | Glasgow *not said here* | | | | evening | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **egg on** | participle | Glasgow *not said here* | | | | | by older boys | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **throw** | past | Glasgow | a firecracker | | Mrs's old door | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent firecracker=Theme at door=Destination | 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:5`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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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