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title: Open swinging doors slowly and look through the glass if there is an… — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Open swinging doors slowly and look through the glass if there is any, in case someone is behind. Who acts: any, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 16

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Open swinging doors slowly and look through the glass if there is any, in case someone is behind.

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**Who acts:** any, someone · **What happens:** swing, look, be · **To what, where:** doors

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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 (any, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:16
# text = Open swinging doors slowly and look through the glass if there is any, in case someone is behind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	compound	_	_
2	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	12	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **swing** | gerund |  | doors |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | through the glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through glass=Theme |
| 3 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | someone |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | tree rules |

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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:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.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, 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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