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title: Bogs and swamps can be dangerous to walk on, so always stay on paths… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Bogs and swamps can be dangerous to walk on, so always stay on paths and boardwalks, and never go near the water's edge where alligators live. Who acts: Bogs, alligators. A sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 18

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Bogs and swamps can be dangerous to walk on, so always stay on paths and boardwalks, and never go near the water's edge where alligators live.

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**Who acts:** Bogs, alligators · **What happens:** be, walk on, stay, not go, live · **To what, where:** paths, edge

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» of the biology 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 (Bogs, alligators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:18
# text = Bogs and swamps can be dangerous to walk on, so always stay on paths and boardwalks, and never go near the water's edge where alligators live.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.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	Bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:csubj
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	boardwalks	boardwalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	alligators	alligator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | can | Bogs and swamps |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk on** | to-infinitive | Bogs and swamps *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive | Bogs and swamps *not said here* |  |  | paths and boardwalks |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location |
| 4 | **not** **go** | infinitive | Bogs and swamps *not said here* |  |  | the water's edge |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near edge=Location |
| 5 | **live** | present | alligators |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:18`.

**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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