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title: Putting the toilet seat down and closing the lid is polite, and stop… — Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting the toilet seat down and closing the lid is polite, and stops toddlers falling in. Who acts: Putting. A sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom, sentence 11

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Putting the toilet seat down and closing the lid is polite, and stops toddlers falling in.

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**Who acts:** Putting · **What happens:** put, close, be, stop, fall in · **To what, where:** toilet seat, lid, toddlers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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 (Putting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:11
# text = Putting the toilet seat down and closing the lid is polite, and stops toddlers falling in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.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	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **put** | gerund |  | the toilet seat |  |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent seat=Goal |
| 2 | **close** | gerund |  | the lid |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | Putting |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | present | Putting *not said here* | toddlers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall in** | gerund | Putting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:11`.

**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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