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title: A safe rule for doubtful food is: when in doubt, throw it out. — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: A safe rule for doubtful food is: when in doubt, throw it out. A sentence of the lesson «Smells that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Smells that warn, sentence 16

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A safe rule for doubtful food is: when in doubt, throw it out.

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**What happens:** be, throw out · **To what, where:** safe rule, food, doubt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Smells that warn» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:16
# text = A safe rule for doubtful food is: when in doubt, throw it out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 013-smells-that-warn.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is a** | present |  | a safe rule |  |  |  | for doubtful food | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw out** | infinitive |  | food |  | doubt |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in doubt=Destination |

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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:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:16`.

**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. **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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