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title: Do not eat yellow, grey or dirty snow, and ask before eating any, be… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not eat yellow, grey or dirty snow, and ask before eating any, because snow can contain dirt, animal pee and road salt. Who acts: you, snow. A sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 15

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Do not eat yellow, grey or dirty snow, and ask before eating any, because snow can contain dirt, animal pee and road salt.

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**Who acts:** you, snow · **What happens:** not eat, ask, eat, contain · **To what, where:** yellow snow, any, dirt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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, snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:15
# text = Do not eat yellow, grey or dirty snow, and ask before eating any, because snow can contain dirt, animal pee and road salt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 234-snow-ice-and-sun.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pee	pee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** **eat** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | yellow snow |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | you *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |
| 4 | **contain** | can | snow | dirt and animal pee and road salt |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dirt=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:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:15`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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