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title: He does not touch it, puts his bag next to it to mark the spot and r… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: He does not touch it, puts his bag next to it to mark the spot and runs to tell his mum, who calls the council to remove it safely. Who acts: boy, mum. 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 
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 9

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He does not touch it, puts his bag next to it to mark the spot and runs to tell his mum, who calls the council to remove it safely.

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**Who acts:** boy, mum · **What happens:** not touch, put, mark, run, tell, call · **To what, where:** syringe, bag, spot, mum, council · **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 (boy, mum), 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:9
# text = He does not touch it, puts his bag next to it to mark the spot and runs to tell his mum, who calls the council to remove it safely.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	next	next	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
18	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | present · do-support | boy | syringe |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **put** | present | boy *not said here* | boy's bag | syringe |  |  | next *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bag=Goal |
| 3 | **mark** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | the spot |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent spot=Destination |
| 4 | **run** | present | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  | boy's mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 6 | **call** | present | boy's mum | the council |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **remove** | to-infinitive | boy's mum *not said here* | syringe |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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