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title: Ben breaks a vase: "He's only little." Hannah broke a cup at the sam… — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben breaks a vase: "He's only little." Hannah broke a cup at the same age: "That was different, you were naughty." Same act, same age, two judgements. Who acts: Ben, Hannah, That, you. A sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world course 
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# The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 3

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Ben breaks a vase: "He's only little." Hannah broke a cup at the same age: "That was different, you were naughty." Same act, same age, two judgements.

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**Who acts:** Ben, Hannah, That, you · **What happens:** break, be · **To what, where:** vase, cup, same age · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world 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 (Ben, Hannah, That, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:3
# text = Ben breaks a vase: "He's only little." Hannah broke a cup at the same age: "That was different, you were naughty." Same act, same age, two judgements.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.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
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breaks	break	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	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
23	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	Same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	judgements	judgement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Ben | a vase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ben |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past | Hannah | a cup |  |  | at the same age |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cup=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | That |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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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