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title: Warning symbols are black pictures inside red-bordered diamonds; the… — Cleaning chemicals and safety at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Warning symbols are black pictures inside red-bordered diamonds; they mean the same in many countries, so people understand them without reading. Who acts: Warning symbols, symbols, people. A sentence of the lesson «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary sch
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# Cleaning chemicals and safety at home, sentence 10

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Warning symbols are black pictures inside red-bordered diamonds; they mean the same in many countries, so people understand them without reading.

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**Who acts:** Warning symbols, symbols, people · **What happens:** be, border, mean, understand, read · **To what, where:** black pictures, bordered diamonds, same, symbols

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry 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 (Warning symbols, symbols, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:025-cleaning-chemicals-safety.lesson:10
# text = Warning symbols are black pictures inside red-bordered diamonds; they mean the same in many countries, so people understand them without reading.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 025-cleaning-chemicals-safety.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 a** | present | Warning symbols | black pictures |  | bordered diamonds |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **border** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | symbols *= symbol* | the same |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic |
| 4 | **understand** | present | people | symbols *= symbol* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 5 | **read** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:chemistry:025-cleaning-chemicals-safety.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-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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