The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 28
Hiding a broken thing makes people chase the wrong problem, like buying new batteries for a broken remote.
Who acts: Hiding, people · What happens: hide, make, chase, buy · To what, where: broken thing, people, wrong problem, new batteries
This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (Hiding, people), 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 | Hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiding | obj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 problem | det |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 problem | amod |
| 10 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chase | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buying | punct |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 buying | mark |
| 13 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 chase | advcl |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 batteries | amod |
| 15 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 buying | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 remote | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 remote | det |
| 18 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 remote | amod |
| 19 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | a broken thing | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Hiding | people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chase | infinitive | people not said here | the wrong problem | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | ||||
| 4 | buy | gerund | people not said here | new batteries | for a broken remote | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent battery=Theme for remote=Beneficiary |
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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:28.
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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