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title: Mia hid Gran's broken china cat; Gran wasn't sad about the cat, only… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia hid Gran's broken china cat; Gran wasn't sad about the cat, only that Mia hadn't told her, and gave her a cwtch, the Welsh word for a cuddle. Who acts: Mia, Gran. 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 18

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Mia hid Gran's broken china cat; Gran wasn't sad about the cat, only that Mia hadn't told her, and gave her a cwtch, the Welsh word for a cuddle.

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**Who acts:** Mia, Gran · **What happens:** hide, not be, not tell, give · **To what, where:** broken china cat, cat, cwtch · **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 (Mia, Gran), 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:18
# text = Mia hid Gran's broken china cat; Gran wasn't sad about the cat, only that Mia hadn't told her, and gave her a cwtch, the Welsh word for a cuddle.
# 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cwtch	cwtch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **hide** | past | Mia | Gran's broken china cat |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Gran |  |  |  |  | about the cat; sad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Mia |  | cat |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** | past | Mia *not said here* | a cwtch | cat |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cwtch=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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**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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