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title: The lie was a whole trip to the shop.» Finn dropped Dad's phone in t… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics
description: The lie was a whole trip to the shop.» Finn dropped Dad's phone in the bath, dried it with a hair dryer and blamed «the update»; the repair shop said «water damage», and saying «it got wet» at once might have saved it. Who acts: lie, Finn, repair shop, shop. A sentence of the lesson «The broken wind
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# The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 13

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The lie was a whole trip to the shop.» Finn dropped Dad's phone in the bath, dried it with a hair dryer and blamed «the update»; the repair shop said «water damage», and saying «it got wet» at once might have saved it.

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**Who acts:** lie, Finn, repair shop, shop · **What happens:** be, drop, dry, blame, say, get · **To what, where:** whole trip, phone, bath, update, water damage, shop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lie, Finn, repair shop, shop), 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:13
# text = The lie was a whole trip to the shop.» Finn dropped Dad's phone in the bath, dried it with a hair dryer and blamed «the update»; the repair shop said «water damage», and saying «it got wet» at once might have saved it.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
12	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dryer	dryer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	update	update	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
39	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:ccomp
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	_
45	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
48	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=54:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	54	obl	_	_
52	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux	_	_
54	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	conj	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the lie | a whole trip |  |  |  | to the shop | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** *in a quote* | past | Finn | Dad's phone |  | the bath |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dry** *in a quote* | past | Finn *not said here* | phone |  |  |  | with a hair dryer | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with dryer=Instrument |
| 4 | **blame** *in a quote* | past | Finn *not said here* | the update |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent update=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the repair shop | water damage |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent damage=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | the repair shop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **get** | past | shop |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **save** *in a quote* | might · perfect | shop *not said here* | shop |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset |

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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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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