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title: Never pick up a cone shell or blue-ringed octopus; they are small an… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Never pick up a cone shell or blue-ringed octopus; they are small and pretty but deadly. Who acts: you, shell. 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 19

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Never pick up a cone shell or blue-ringed octopus; they are small and pretty but deadly.

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**Who acts:** you, shell · **What happens:** not pick up, ring, be · **To what, where:** cone shell

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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 (you, shell), 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:19
# text = Never pick up a cone shell or blue-ringed octopus; they are small and pretty but deadly.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	ringed	ring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **pick up** | imperative | you *not said here* | a cone shell or ringed octopus |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Topic |
| 2 | **ring** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | shell |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | shell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | shell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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 ×2. **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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