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title: Aroha in Wellington cracked a lampshade trampolining in the lounge a… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics
description: Aroha in Wellington cracked a lampshade trampolining in the lounge and blamed the cat; Mum said «The cat was at the vet all day. Who acts: Aroha, lampshade, Mum, cat. A sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 15

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Aroha in Wellington cracked a lampshade trampolining in the lounge and blamed the cat; Mum said «The cat was at the vet all day.

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**Who acts:** Aroha, lampshade, Mum, cat · **What happens:** crack, trampoline, blame, say, be · **To what, where:** lampshade, lounge, cat, vet · **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 (Aroha, lampshade, Mum, cat), 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:15
# text = Aroha in Wellington cracked a lampshade trampolining in the lounge and blamed the cat; Mum said «The cat was at the vet all day.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Aroha	Aroha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lampshade	lampshade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	trampolining	trampoline	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lounge	lounge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **crack** | past | Aroha in Wellington | a lampshade |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lampshade=Theme |
| 2 | **trampoline** | gerund | a lampshade *not said here* |  |  | the lounge |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **blame** | past | Aroha in Wellington *not said here* | the cat |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the cat |  |  | the vet | day |  | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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): 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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