--- title: Hidden accidents send people chasing the wrong problem. — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics description: Hidden accidents send people chasing the wrong problem. Who acts: Hidden accidents, people. A sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/10/) [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/) / [The broken window and other hidden acc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/) / 10 # The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 10 Hidden accidents send people chasing the wrong problem. **Who acts:** Hidden accidents, people · **What happens:** send, chase · **To what, where:** people, wrong problem This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (Hidden accidents, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:10 # text = Hidden accidents send people chasing the wrong problem. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.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 Hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 chasing chase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present | Hidden accidents | people | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 2 | **chase** | gerund | people *not said here* | the wrong problem | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | 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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:10`. **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: [The broken window and other hidden acc…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/9/) - next →: [The broken window and other hidden acc…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/)