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title: Weed killer and slug pellets are poisons, so never touch, open or ta… — Safe and kind in gardens and forests · tree and pragmatics
description: Weed killer and slug pellets are poisons, so never touch, open or taste garden chemicals. Who acts: Weed killer. 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 clause.
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# Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 11

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Weed killer and slug pellets are poisons, so never touch, open or taste garden chemicals.

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**Who acts:** Weed killer · **What happens:** be, not touch, open, taste · **To what, where:** poisons, garden chemicals

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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 (Weed killer), 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:11
# text = Weed killer and slug pellets are poisons, so never touch, open or taste 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	Weed	Weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	killer	killer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	taste	taste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present | Weed killer and slug pellets | poisons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **taste** | infinitive |  | garden chemicals |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme chemical=Attribute |

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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:11`.

**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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