Accidents told too late, sentence 22

A broken toilet handle or leak should be told at once so it can be fixed before it gets worse; hidden, the next person can't flush and a plumber must be called.

Who acts: leak, next person · What happens: break, tell, fix, get, hide, not flush · To what, where: broken toilet handle, leak, plumber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» of the everyday 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 (leak, next person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 handle	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 handle	amod
3	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handle	compound
4	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 leak	cc
6	leak	leak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handle	conj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	_	9 told	obl
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 fixed	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fixed	nsubj:pass
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fixed	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 fixed	aux:pass
16	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	advcl
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 gets	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gets	nsubj
19	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fixed	advcl
20	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 gets	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hidden	punct
22	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 gets	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gets	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 person	amod
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flush	nsubj
27	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 flush	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 flush	advmod
29	flush	flush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fixed	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 called	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 plumber	det
32	plumber	plumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 called	nsubj:pass
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 called	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 called	aux:pass
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 flush	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	should · passive		a broken toilet handle or leak		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	fix	can · passive		leak		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
4	get	present	leak		bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	hide	participle	leak not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not flush	can	the next person			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	call	must · passive		a plumber		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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, 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:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:22.

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): R5-strong ×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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