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title: Two brothers in Melbourne broke a vase wrestling. — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics
description: Two brothers in Melbourne broke a vase wrestling. Who acts: Two brothers. A sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 25

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Two brothers in Melbourne broke a vase wrestling.

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**Who acts:** Two brothers · **What happens:** break · **To what, where:** vase

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (Two brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:25
# text = Two brothers in Melbourne broke a vase wrestling.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.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 ×1
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **break** | past | Two brothers in Melbourne | a vase |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent vase=Patient wrestling=Result |

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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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**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 ×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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