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title: For example, antifreeze tastes sweet, so a child or a dog might drin… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, antifreeze tastes sweet, so a child or a dog might drink it, but even a little can kill; this is why garage chemicals are never touched. Who acts: antifreeze, child, little, this. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's prima
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# Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 3

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For example, antifreeze tastes sweet, so a child or a dog might drink it, but even a little can kill; this is why garage chemicals are never touched.

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**Who acts:** antifreeze, child, little, this · **What happens:** taste, drink, kill, be, not touch · **To what, where:** antifreeze, garage chemicals

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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 (antifreeze, child, little, this), 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:3
# text = For example, antifreeze tastes sweet, so a child or a dog might drink it, but even a little can kill; this is why garage chemicals are never touched.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	antifreeze	antifreeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	_
28	garage	garage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl:relcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **taste** | present | antifreeze |  |  |  |  | for example; sweet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drink** | might | a child or a dog | antifreeze |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **kill** | can | a little |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **touch** | present · passive |  | garage chemicals |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:3`.

**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. **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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