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title: Before stacking plates, scrape the leftovers into the bin or the foo… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics
description: Before stacking plates, scrape the leftovers into the bin or the food caddy, a small bin just for food scraps. Who acts: you. 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 7

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Before stacking plates, scrape the leftovers into the bin or the food caddy, a small bin just for food scraps.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stack, scrape · **To what, where:** plates, leftovers, bin

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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 (you), 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:7
# text = Before stacking plates, scrape the leftovers into the bin or the food caddy, a small bin just for food scraps.
# 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 ×1
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stacking	stack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
3	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	caddy	caddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stack** | gerund | you *not said here* | plates |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |
| 2 | **scrape** | imperative | you *not said here* | the leftovers |  |  |  | into the bin or the food caddy *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent leftover=Patient into bin=Result |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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