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title: A rake left with its teeth up can swing its handle into your face wh… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics
description: A rake left with its teeth up can swing its handle into your face when stepped on. Who acts: rake. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 13

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A rake left with its teeth up can swing its handle into your face when stepped on.

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**Who acts:** rake · **What happens:** leave, swing, step on · **To what, where:** rake, handle, face

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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 (rake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:13
# text = A rake left with its teeth up can swing its handle into your face when stepped on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.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	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **leave** | participle |  | a rake *not said here* |  |  |  | with rake's teeth | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tooth=Theme |
| 2 | **swing** | can | a rake | rake's handle |  | your face |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent handle=Theme into face=Trajectory |
| 3 | **step on** | participle | a rake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:13`.

**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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