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title: Brightly coloured liquid capsules for washing machines have been mis… — Cleaning chemicals and safety at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Brightly coloured liquid capsules for washing machines have been mistaken for sweets by small children. Who acts: small children. A sentence of the lesson «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Cleaning chemicals and safety at home, sentence 13

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Brightly coloured liquid capsules for washing machines have been mistaken for sweets by small children.

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**Who acts:** small children · **What happens:** colour, mistake · **To what, where:** coloured liquid capsules

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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 (small children), 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:13
# text = Brightly coloured liquid capsules for washing machines have been mistaken for sweets by small children.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	capsules	capsule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **colour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mistake** | present · perfect · passive | small children | coloured liquid capsules for washing machines |  |  |  | for sweets | 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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**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:13`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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