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title: Plastic bags are tied in a knot and kept up high so a small child ca… — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: Plastic bags are tied in a knot and kept up high so a small child cannot pull one over the head. Who acts: small child. A sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, sentence 5

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Plastic bags are tied in a knot and kept up high so a small child cannot pull one over the head.

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**Who acts:** small child · **What happens:** tie, keep up, not pull · **To what, where:** Plastic bags, knot, one, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» 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 (small child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.lesson:5
# text = Plastic bags are tied in a knot and kept up high so a small child cannot pull one over the head.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	.	.	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 | **tie** | present · passive |  | Plastic bags |  | a knot |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **keep up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **pull** | can | a small child | one |  | the head |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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