--- title: Ollie kicks a ball indoors and smashes Mum's vase; no one saw, and t… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics description: Ollie kicks a ball indoors and smashes Mum's vase; no one saw, and the cat is sitting right next to it, but blaming the cat is the oldest trick in the book: Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent (Genesis 3:12-13). Who acts: Ollie, one, cat, blaming. 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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 (Ollie, one, cat, blaming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:1 # text = Ollie kicks a ball indoors and smashes Mum's vase; no one saw, and the cat is sitting right next to it, but blaming the cat is the oldest trick in the book: Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent (Genesis 3:12-13). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kicks kick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 smashes smash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 21 right right ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 next next ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 csubj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 33 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 40 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 48 3:12-13 3:12-13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 flat _ _ 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kick** | present | Ollie | a ball | | | | indoors *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | | 2 | **smash** | present | Ollie *not said here* | Mum's vase | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | no one | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **sit** | present · progressive | the cat | | | | | next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **blame** | gerund | | the cat | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | blaming | the oldest trick | | the book | | | tree rules | | 7 | **blame** | past | Adam | Eve | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve=Theme | | 8 | **blame** | past | Eve | the serpent | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:1`. **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, 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. 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