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title: Lawnmowers throw stones and can cut off toes, and small children can… — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics
description: Lawnmowers throw stones and can cut off toes, and small children can drown in very shallow water, like a pond or a paddling pool. Who acts: Lawnmowers, small children. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom, sentence 3

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Lawnmowers throw stones and can cut off toes, and small children can drown in very shallow water, like a pond or a paddling pool.

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**Who acts:** Lawnmowers, small children · **What happens:** throw, cut off, drown · **To what, where:** stones, toes, shallow water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers 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 (Lawnmowers, small children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:3
# text = Lawnmowers throw stones and can cut off toes, and small children can drown in very shallow water, like a pond or a paddling pool.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Lawnmowers	lawnmower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	paddling	paddling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present | Lawnmowers | stones |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **cut off** | can | Lawnmowers *not said here* | toes |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector toe=Eventuality |
| 3 | **drown** | can | small children |  |  | shallow water like a pond or a paddling pool |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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