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title: Kai went back alone and knocked: «G'day, that was me, sorry.» Mr Wil… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai went back alone and knocked: «G'day, that was me, sorry.» Mr Wilson, about to call the police, shook his hand, and Kai washed his car three times to help pay. Who acts: Kai, that, police, Mr Wilson. A sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» of the everyday course of
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# The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 22

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Kai went back alone and knocked: «G'day, that was me, sorry.» Mr Wilson, about to call the police, shook his hand, and Kai washed his car three times to help pay.

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**Who acts:** Kai, that, police, Mr Wilson · **What happens:** go back, knock, be, call, shook, wash · **To what, where:** Isla, hand, car · **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 (Kai, that, police, Mr Wilson), 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:22
# text = Kai went back alone and knocked: «G'day, that was me, sorry.» Mr Wilson, about to call the police, shook his hand, and Kai washed his car three times to help pay.
# 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
9	G'day	G'day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
18	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Wilson	Wilson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	shook	shook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
40	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Kai |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **knock** | past | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that | Isla |  |  |  | G'day *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | the police |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shook** | past | Mr Wilson | Kai's hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wash** | past | Kai | Kai's car |  |  | time |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient |
| 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **pay** | infinitive | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:22`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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