--- title: Walking away and lying is a choice.» He got a detention — for the li… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics description: Walking away and lying is a choice.» He got a detention — for the lie, not the window. Who acts: stone. 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. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 9 Walking away and lying is a choice.» He got a detention — for the lie, not the window. **Who acts:** stone · **What happens:** walk away, lie, be, get · **To what, where:** choice, detention · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (stone), 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:9 # text = Walking away and lying is a choice.» He got a detention — for the lie, not the window. # 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 Walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 nsubj _ _ 2 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 detention detention NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 — - PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk away** | gerund | | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a choice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | stone | a detention | | | | for the lie; the window *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent detention=Theme for lie=Source | 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:9`. **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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