--- title: An accident is something nobody meant to happen; grown-ups can expla… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: An accident is something nobody meant to happen; grown-ups can explain what happened simply, without upsetting details. Who acts: accident, nobody, grown ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accident, nobody, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:6 # text = An accident is something nobody meant to happen; grown-ups can explain what happened simply, without upsetting details. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ _ 6 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 nsubj _ _ 16 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 17 simply simply ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 without without ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 upsetting upsetting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a accident | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | can | grown ups | | | | | without upsetting details | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **happen** | past | | | | | | simply *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:6`. **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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