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title: Take only a few stones, shells and leaves, and only where it is allo… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: Take only a few stones, shells and leaves, and only where it is allowed, because some parks and beaches forbid taking natural things. Who acts: you, parks. 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 t
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 19

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Take only a few stones, shells and leaves, and only where it is allowed, because some parks and beaches forbid taking natural things.

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**Who acts:** you, parks · **What happens:** take, allow, forbid · **To what, where:** few stones, grown, natural things

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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, parks), 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:19
# text = Take only a few stones, shells and leaves, and only where it is allowed, because some parks and beaches forbid taking natural things.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	forbid	forbid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
24	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	xcomp	_	_
25	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a few stones and shells and leaves |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | present · passive |  | grown *= grow* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **forbid** | present | some parks and beaches |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | some parks and beaches *not said here* | natural things |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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