--- title: Hiding a broken thing makes people chase the wrong problem, like buy… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics description: Hiding a broken thing makes people chase the wrong problem, like buying new batteries for a broken remote. Who acts: Hiding, people. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The broken window and other hidden acc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/) / 28 # The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 28 Hiding a broken thing makes people chase the wrong problem, like buying new batteries for a broken remote. **Who acts:** Hiding, people · **What happens:** hide, make, chase, buy · **To what, where:** broken thing, people, wrong problem, new batteries 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 (Hiding, people), 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:28 # text = Hiding a broken thing makes people chase the wrong problem, like buying new batteries for a broken remote. # 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 Hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 buying buy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 14 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 remote remote NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | gerund | | a broken thing | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Hiding | people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **chase** | infinitive | people *not said here* | the wrong problem | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | | 4 | **buy** | gerund | people *not said here* | new batteries | | | | for a broken remote | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent battery=Theme for remote=Beneficiary | 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. **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:28`. **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. 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