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title: Example: in July a girl in Phoenix, Arizona, touches the metal slide… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: in July a girl in Phoenix, Arizona, touches the metal slide before sliding down and finds it is hot enough to burn. Who acts: girl, Example. 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 pra
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# Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 5

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Example: in July a girl in Phoenix, Arizona, touches the metal slide before sliding down and finds it is hot enough to burn.

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**Who acts:** girl, Example · **What happens:** touch, slide down, find, be, burn · **To what, where:** metal slide · **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 (girl, Example), 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:5
# text = Example: in July a girl in Phoenix, Arizona, touches the metal slide before sliding down and finds it is hot enough to burn.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj:outer
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **touch** | present | a girl in Phoenix and Arizona | the metal slide |  |  | july |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slide=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **slide down** | gerund | a girl in Phoenix and Arizona *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present | a girl in Phoenix and Arizona *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Example |  |  |  |  | enough, hot *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **burn** | to-infinitive | Example *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`.

**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 ×3, 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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