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title: The rule of the outdoors is «Leave no trace»: leave a place as you f… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: The rule of the outdoors is «Leave no trace»: leave a place as you found it, or better. Who acts: rule, you, outdoors. A sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Litter and caring for nature, sentence 0

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The rule of the outdoors is «Leave no trace»: leave a place as you found it, or better.

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**Who acts:** rule, you, outdoors · **What happens:** be, leave, find, rule · **To what, where:** place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» 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 (rule, you, outdoors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:0
# text = The rule of the outdoors is «Leave no trace»: leave a place as you found it, or better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outdoors	outdoor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the rule of the outdoors |  |  |  |  | leave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive |  | a place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | you | place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **rule** |  | the outdoors |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:0`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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