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title: Children who leave the path and lose sight of their group get lost q… — Safe and kind in gardens and forests · tree and pragmatics
description: Children who leave the path and lose sight of their group get lost quickly, because trees all look alike. Who acts: Children, trees. 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 cl
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# Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 25

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Children who leave the path and lose sight of their group get lost quickly, because trees all look alike.

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**Who acts:** Children, trees · **What happens:** leave, lose, look, sight · **To what, where:** path, sight, Children, group

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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 (Children, trees), 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:25
# text = Children who leave the path and lose sight of their group get lost quickly, because trees all look alike.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **leave** | present | Children | the path |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | present | Children *not said here* | sight of Children's group |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lose** | infinitive · passive |  | Children |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **look** | present | trees |  |  |  |  | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | Children's group |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:25`.

**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): R8-pos-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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