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title: A garden looks gentle, but it holds real dangers: sharp tools, lawnm… — Safe and kind in gardens and forests · tree and pragmatics
description: A garden looks gentle, but it holds real dangers: sharp tools, lawnmowers, poisonous plants and garden chemicals. Who acts: garden. A sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 0

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A garden looks gentle, but it holds real dangers: sharp tools, lawnmowers, poisonous plants and garden chemicals.

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**Who acts:** garden · **What happens:** look, hold · **To what, where:** real dangers

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:0
# text = A garden looks gentle, but it holds real dangers: sharp tools, lawnmowers, poisonous plants and garden chemicals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 229-gardens-and-forests.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lawnmowers	lawnmower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a garden |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | present | garden | real dangers |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=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:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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