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title: Do not touch strange metal objects, drums or flares on the beach; te… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not touch strange metal objects, drums or flares on the beach; tell a grown-up or lifeguard. Who acts: 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 20

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Do not touch strange metal objects, drums or flares on the beach; tell a grown-up or lifeguard.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not touch, tell, grow · **To what, where:** strange metal objects, grown up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:20
# text = Do not touch strange metal objects, drums or flares on the beach; tell a grown-up or lifeguard.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	flares	flare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **touch** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | strange metal objects and drums or flares |  |  |  | on the beach | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent object=Experiencer on beach=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | a grown up or lifeguard |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:232-lakes-and-beaches.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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