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title: Close doors gently, because slamming can trap fingers, break glass a… — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Close doors gently, because slamming can trap fingers, break glass and scare people. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Baths, water at home and doors, sentence 13

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Close doors gently, because slamming can trap fingers, break glass and scare people.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** close, slam, trap, break, scare · **To what, where:** doors, fingers, glass, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.lesson:13
# text = Close doors gently, because slamming can trap fingers, break glass and scare people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 109-baths-water-and-doors.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	slamming	slam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	trap	trap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
11	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | doors |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **slam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trap** | can |  | fingers |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 4 | **break** | infinitive |  | glass |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient |
| 5 | **scare** | infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |

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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:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.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): R2-punct-next ×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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