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title: Never touch fireworks, cartridges or flares found on the ground; tel… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: Never touch fireworks, cartridges or flares found on the ground; tell a grown-up, because they may still explode. Who acts: you, firework. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 18

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Never touch fireworks, cartridges or flares found on the ground; tell a grown-up, because they may still explode.

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**Who acts:** you, firework · **What happens:** not touch, find, tell, explode · **To what, where:** fireworks, ground, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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, firework), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:18
# text = Never touch fireworks, cartridges or flares found on the ground; tell a grown-up, because they may still explode.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 238-bites-and-things-you-find.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cartridges	cartridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flares	flare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
15	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	explode	explode	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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** **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | fireworks and cartridges or flares |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme firework=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | fireworks and cartridges or flares *not said here* |  | the ground |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **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 |
| 4 | **explode** | may | firework |  |  |  | still |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:18`.

**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, R6-punct-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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