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title: In a museum you do not touch exhibits unless a sign says you may, be… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics
description: In a museum you do not touch exhibits unless a sign says you may, because many are old and fragile; at a concert, play or assembly you stay quiet and clap at the end. Who acts: you, sign, many. A sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 2

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In a museum you do not touch exhibits unless a sign says you may, because many are old and fragile; at a concert, play or assembly you stay quiet and clap at the end.

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**Who acts:** you, sign, many · **What happens:** not touch, say, be, stay · **To what, where:** exhibits, museum, concert · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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, sign, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:2
# text = In a museum you do not touch exhibits unless a sign says you may, because many are old and fragile; at a concert, play or assembly you stay quiet and clap at the end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fragile	fragile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
32	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	clap	clap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **touch** | present · do-support | you | exhibits |  | a museum |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exhibit=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a sign |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | many |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | present | you |  |  | a concert and play or assembly |  | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at concert=Location |

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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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2, 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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