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title: Close an open pool gate and tell a grown-up, because pool fences kee… — The sea, waves and swimming pools · tree and pragmatics
description: Close an open pool gate and tell a grown-up, because pool fences keep small children from falling in. Who acts: you, pool fences. A sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The sea, waves and swimming pools, sentence 19

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Close an open pool gate and tell a grown-up, because pool fences keep small children from falling in.

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**Who acts:** you, pool fences · **What happens:** close, tell, keep, fall in · **To what, where:** open pool gate, grown, small children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» 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, pool fences), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:19
# text = Close an open pool gate and tell a grown-up, because pool fences keep small children from falling in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 233-sea-and-pools.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 ×2
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | a open pool gate |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** | present | pool fences | small children |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 4 | **fall in** | gerund | pool fences *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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:233-sea-and-pools.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): R5-strong ×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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