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title: When clearing the table, carry a few plates at a time, scrape leftov… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics
description: When clearing the table, carry a few plates at a time, scrape leftovers into the bin or food caddy and stack them by the sink. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 6

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When clearing the table, carry a few plates at a time, scrape leftovers into the bin or food caddy and stack them by the sink.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** clear, carry, scrape, stack · **To what, where:** table, few plates, leftovers, bin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:6
# text = When clearing the table, carry a few plates at a time, scrape leftovers into the bin or food caddy and stack them by the sink.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	2	mark	_	_
2	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	caddy	caddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	stack	stack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear** | gerund | you *not said here* | the table |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent table=Source |
| 2 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | a few plates |  |  | time |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |
| 3 | **scrape** | infinitive | you *not said here* | leftovers |  |  |  | into the bin or food caddy *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent leftover=Patient into bin=Result |
| 4 | **stack** | infinitive | you *not said here* | leftovers *= leftover* |  |  |  | by the sink | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by sink=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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:6`.

**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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