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title: A burglary is when someone breaks in and steals; it is scary because… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: A burglary is when someone breaks in and steals; it is scary because home should feel safe, and the feeling of being unsafe fades with time and safety steps like new locks. Who acts: burglary, home, feeling. A sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the refle
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# Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 14

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A burglary is when someone breaks in and steals; it is scary because home should feel safe, and the feeling of being unsafe fades with time and safety steps like new locks.

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**Who acts:** burglary, home, feeling · **What happens:** break in, steal, be, feel, fade

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection 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 (burglary, home, feeling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:14
# text = A burglary is when someone breaks in and steals; it is scary because home should feel safe, and the feeling of being unsafe fades with time and safety steps like new locks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burglary	burglary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	steals	steal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod
26	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **break in** | present | a burglary |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **steal** | present | a burglary *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | burglary |  |  |  |  | scary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | should | home |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | the feeling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unsafe *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fade** | present | the feeling |  |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:14`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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