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title: Leo let the bath overflow while he played a game, mopped it with tow… — Accidents told too late · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo let the bath overflow while he played a game, mopped it with towels and hid them. Who acts: Leo. A sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Accidents told too late, sentence 5

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Leo let the bath overflow while he played a game, mopped it with towels and hid them.

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**Who acts:** Leo · **What happens:** let, overflow, play, mop, hide · **To what, where:** game, towels

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» 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 (Leo), 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:5
# text = Leo let the bath overflow while he played a game, mopped it with towels and hid them.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
4	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
12	mopped	mop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overflow** | infinitive | Leo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | past | Leo | a game |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 4 | **mop** | past | Leo *not said here* | game |  |  |  | with towels | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **hide** | past | Leo *not said here* | towels *= towel* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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.

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**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: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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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