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title: Check around a door before closing it, because the hinge side crushe… — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Check around a door before closing it, because the hinge side crushes fingers badly. Who acts: you, hinge side. 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 14

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Check around a door before closing it, because the hinge side crushes fingers badly.

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**Who acts:** you, hinge side · **What happens:** check around, close, crush · **To what, where:** door, glass, fingers

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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, hinge side), 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:14
# text = Check around a door before closing it, because the hinge side crushes fingers badly.
# 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): no change
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	crushes	crush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **check around** | imperative | you *not said here* | a door |  |  |  | around *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 2 | **close** | gerund | you *not said here* | glass |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **crush** | present | the hinge side | fingers |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |

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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:14`.

**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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