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title: Never let anyone climb into a washing machine, tumble dryer or old f… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never let anyone climb into a washing machine, tumble dryer or old fridge; children can be trapped and suffocate, which means they cannot breathe. Who acts: you, anyone, children. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 4

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Never let anyone climb into a washing machine, tumble dryer or old fridge; children can be trapped and suffocate, which means they cannot breathe.

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**Who acts:** you, anyone, children · **What happens:** not let, climb, tumble, trap, suffocate, mean · **To what, where:** anyone, washing machine, dryer, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» 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 (you, anyone, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:4
# text = Never let anyone climb into a washing machine, tumble dryer or old fridge; children can be trapped and suffocate, which means they cannot breathe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.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): no change
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tumble	tumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	dryer	dryer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	suffocate	suffocate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | infinitive | anyone *not said here* |  |  | a washing machine |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into machine=Destination |
| 3 | **tumble** | infinitive | anyone *not said here* | dryer or old fridge |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dryer=Theme |
| 4 | **trap** | can · passive |  | children |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **suffocate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **breathe** | can | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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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**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.

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

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