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title: In Ohio, Mason-Tyler breaks the TV remote and his big brother takes… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Ohio, Mason-Tyler breaks the TV remote and his big brother takes the blame, but Mason-Tyler feels so bad that he confesses. Who acts: Mason Tyler, big brother, Tyler. A sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» of the everyday course of Mov
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 18

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In Ohio, Mason-Tyler breaks the TV remote and his big brother takes the blame, but Mason-Tyler feels so bad that he confesses.

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**Who acts:** Mason Tyler, big brother, Tyler · **What happens:** break, take, feel, confess · **To what, where:** TV remote, Ohio, blame

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Mason Tyler, big brother, Tyler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:18
# text = In Ohio, Mason-Tyler breaks the TV remote and his big brother takes the blame, but Mason-Tyler feels so bad that he confesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Mason	Mason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	Mason	Mason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	confesses	confess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | present | Mason Tyler | the TV remote |  | Ohio |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remote=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | present | Tyler's big brother | the blame |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | Mason Tyler |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **confess** | present | Tyler |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: 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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:18`.

**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. **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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