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title: A ball broke the Wilsons' window and three boys ran. — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics
description: A ball broke the Wilsons' window and three boys ran. Who acts: ball, three boys. 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.
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# The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 21

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A ball broke the Wilsons' window and three boys ran.

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**Who acts:** ball, three boys · **What happens:** break, run · **To what, where:** window

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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 (ball, three boys), 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:21
# text = A ball broke the Wilsons' window and three boys ran.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Wilsons	wilson	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **break** | past | a ball | the Wilsons's window |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | past | three boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:21`.

**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/).

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