--- title: A broken toilet handle or leak should be told at once so it can be f… — Accidents told too late · tree and pragmatics description: A broken toilet handle or leak should be told at once so it can be fixed before it gets worse; hidden, the next person can't flush and a plumber must be called. Who acts: leak, next person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leak, next person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:22 # text = A broken toilet handle or leak should be told at once so it can be fixed before it gets worse; hidden, the next person can't flush and a plumber must be called. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 343-accidents-told-too-late.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 leak leak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 once once ADV RB _ 9 obl _ _ 12 so so SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 17 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 flush flush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 plumber plumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive | | a broken toilet handle or leak | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **fix** | can · passive | | leak | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **get** | present | leak | | | | | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **hide** | participle | leak *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **flush** | can | the next person | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **call** | must · passive | | a plumber | | | | | 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:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:22`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Accidents told too late, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/21/) - next →: [Accidents told too late, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/)