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title: Never touch broken glass or needles; move away and tell a grown-up,… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Never touch broken glass or needles; move away and tell a grown-up, because needles can carry dangerous illnesses. Who acts: you, needles. A sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 18

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Never touch broken glass or needles; move away and tell a grown-up, because needles can carry dangerous illnesses.

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**Who acts:** you, needles · **What happens:** not touch, break, move away, tell, carry · **To what, where:** broken glass, grown, dangerous illnesses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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, needles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:18
# text = Never touch broken glass or needles; move away and tell a grown-up, because needles can carry dangerous illnesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
13	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **not** **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | broken glass or needles |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **move away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic |
| 5 | **carry** | can | needles | dangerous illnesses |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme |

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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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:18`.

**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. **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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