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title: Cords, strings and long scarves are kept away from small children be… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: Cords, strings and long scarves are kept away from small children because they can wrap around the neck. Who acts: Cords. A sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 8

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Cords, strings and long scarves are kept away from small children because they can wrap around the neck.

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**Who acts:** Cords · **What happens:** keep away, wrap · **To what, where:** Cords, neck

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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 (Cords), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson:8
# text = Cords, strings and long scarves are kept away from small children because they can wrap around the neck.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.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	Cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	wrap	wrap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **keep away** | present · passive |  | Cords and strings and long scarves |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wrap** | can | Cords *= cord* |  |  | the neck |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around neck=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:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson:8`.

**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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