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title: A boy in Australia left a rake lying teeth-up on the lawn; he steppe… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Australia left a rake lying teeth-up on the lawn; he stepped on it in the evening, the handle flew up and hit his face, and he needed stitches above his eye. Who acts: boy, rake, handle. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 21

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A boy in Australia left a rake lying teeth-up on the lawn; he stepped on it in the evening, the handle flew up and hit his face, and he needed stitches above his eye.

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**Who acts:** boy, rake, handle · **What happens:** leave, lie, step, fly up, hit, need · **To what, where:** rake, teeth up, lawn, pool, face, stitches

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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 (boy, rake, handle), 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:21
# text = A boy in Australia left a rake lying teeth-up on the lawn; he stepped on it in the evening, the handle flew up and hit his face, and he needed stitches above his eye.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	above	above	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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** | past | a boy in Australia | a rake |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rake=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | a rake *not said here* | teeth up |  | the lawn |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location up=Theme |
| 3 | **step** | past | boy |  |  | pool | evening |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fly up** | past | the handle |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hit** | past | the handle *not said here* | boy's face |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **need** | past | boy | stitches |  | boy's eye |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:21`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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