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title: In assembly the head teacher asks: «Who saw how the window by the bi… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics
description: In assembly the head teacher asks: «Who saw how the window by the bike shed got broken?» Three hundred children stare at their shoes. Who acts: head teacher, hundred children. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 0

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In assembly the head teacher asks: «Who saw how the window by the bike shed got broken?» Three hundred children stare at their shoes.

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**Who acts:** head teacher, hundred children · **What happens:** ask, see, break, stare · **To what, where:** assembly, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (head teacher, hundred children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:0
# text = In assembly the head teacher asks: «Who saw how the window by the bike shed got broken?» Three hundred children stare at their shoes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
19	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
22	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nummod
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stare	stare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the head teacher |  |  | assembly |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the window by the bike shed |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **stare** | infinitive | hundred children |  |  |  |  | at children's shoes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme |

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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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:0`.

**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 ×3, 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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