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title: Mum paid for the glass from his birthday money, and Owen had to say… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum paid for the glass from his birthday money, and Owen had to say sorry to Mr Patel face to face, which felt worse than the glass. Who acts: Mum, Owen, Patel face. A sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 3

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Mum paid for the glass from his birthday money, and Owen had to say sorry to Mr Patel face to face, which felt worse than the glass.

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**Who acts:** Mum, Owen, Patel face · **What happens:** pay, have, say, feel · **To what, where:** birthday money, sorry, Patel face · **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 (Mum, Owen, Patel face), 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:3
# text = Mum paid for the glass from his birthday money, and Owen had to say sorry to Mr Patel face to face, which felt worse than the glass.
# 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 ×2
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Patel	Patel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **pay** | past | Mum |  |  | football's birthday money |  | for the glass | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for glass=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Owen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Owen *not said here* | sorry | Patel face to face |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic to face=Recipient |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Patel face to face |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:3`.

**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 ×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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