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title: Isla in Edinburgh broke her friend's pen and slipped it back into th… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics
description: Isla in Edinburgh broke her friend's pen and slipped it back into the pencil case; the next day she said «Aye, it was me, sorry, I'll get you a new one», and her friend was mad for a day, then fine. Who acts: Isla, pen, friend. A sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 
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# The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 19

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Isla in Edinburgh broke her friend's pen and slipped it back into the pencil case; the next day she said «Aye, it was me, sorry, I'll get you a new one», and her friend was mad for a day, then fine.

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**Who acts:** Isla, pen, friend · **What happens:** break, slip back, say, be, get · **To what, where:** pen, pencil case, Isla, new one, you · **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 (Isla, pen, friend), 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:19
# text = Isla in Edinburgh broke her friend's pen and slipped it back into the pencil case; the next day she said «Aye, it was me, sorry, I'll get you a new one», and her friend was mad for a day, then fine.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
24	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	ccomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
51	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
52	.	.	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 | **break** | past | Isla in Edinburgh | Isla's friend's pen |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pen=Patient |
| 2 | **slip back** | past | Isla in Edinburgh *not said here* | pen |  | the pencil case |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isla |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | pen | Isla |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | future | Isla | a new one | you |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary one=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | Isla's friend |  |  |  | day | mad *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | Isla's friend *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | 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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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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