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title: Having a place for each thing and tidying a little every day makes t… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics
description: Having a place for each thing and tidying a little every day makes things quick to find and stops people tripping. Who acts: Having. A sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chores and broken things, sentence 5

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Having a place for each thing and tidying a little every day makes things quick to find and stops people tripping.

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**Who acts:** Having · **What happens:** have, tidy, make, find, stop, trip · **To what, where:** place, little, things, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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 (Having), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:5
# text = Having a place for each thing and tidying a little every day makes things quick to find and stops people tripping.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 111-chores-and-broken-things.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): R5-strong ×4
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tidying	tidy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	tripping	trip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **have** | gerund |  | a place |  |  |  | for each thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **tidy** | gerund |  | a little |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | Having | things |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | Having *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stop** | present | Having *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **trip** | gerund | Having *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:5`.

**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): R5-strong ×4. **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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