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title: Where crocodiles may live, as in northern Australia, never swim and… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Where crocodiles may live, as in northern Australia, never swim and keep away from the water's edge. Who acts: crocodiles, you. A sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 16

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Where crocodiles may live, as in northern Australia, never swim and keep away from the water's edge.

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**Who acts:** crocodiles, you · **What happens:** live, not swim, keep away · **To what, where:** edge

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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 (crocodiles, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:16
# text = Where crocodiles may live, as in northern Australia, never swim and keep away from the water's edge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 232-lakes-and-beaches.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	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | may | crocodiles |  |  |  |  | as northern Australia | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **swim** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the water's edge |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from edge=Eventuality |

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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:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:16`.

**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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