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title: Carving or peeling bark wounds a tree and lets in disease that can k… — Safe and kind in gardens and forests · tree and pragmatics
description: Carving or peeling bark wounds a tree and lets in disease that can kill it. Who acts: disease. 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 20

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Carving or peeling bark wounds a tree and lets in disease that can kill it.

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**Who acts:** disease · **What happens:** carve, peel, wound, let in, kill · **To what, where:** bark, tree, disease

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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 (disease), 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:20
# text = Carving or peeling bark wounds a tree and lets in disease that can kill it.
# 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	Carving	carve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	peeling	peel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	wounds	wound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **carve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **peel** | gerund |  | bark |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Source |
| 3 | **wound** | present |  | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer |
| 4 | **let in** | present |  | disease |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | can | disease | disease |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:20`.

**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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