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title: Glass is a solid; some old windows are thicker at the bottom because… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Glass is a solid; some old windows are thicker at the bottom because old glass panes were made uneven. Who acts: Glass, old windows. A sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 9

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Glass is a solid; some old windows are thicker at the bottom because old glass panes were made uneven.

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**Who acts:** Glass, old windows · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** bottom, old glass panes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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 (Glass, old windows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:9
# text = Glass is a solid; some old windows are thicker at the bottom because old glass panes were made uneven.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
20	uneven	uneven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Glass |  |  |  |  | solid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | some old windows |  |  | the bottom |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | old glass panes |  |  |  | uneven *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): R8-pos-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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