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title: A baby can pull a tablecloth and bring hot drinks or heavy pots down… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: A baby can pull a tablecloth and bring hot drinks or heavy pots down onto himself. Who acts: baby. A sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 16

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A baby can pull a tablecloth and bring hot drinks or heavy pots down onto himself.

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**Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** pull, bring · **To what, where:** tablecloth, hot drinks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:16
# text = A baby can pull a tablecloth and bring hot drinks or heavy pots down onto himself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
15	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pull** | can | a baby | a tablecloth |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablecloth=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | a baby *not said here* | hot drinks or heavy pots |  |  |  | onto Canada; down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drink=Theme onto himself=Destination |

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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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:16`.

**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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