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title: Take your rubbish home or to a bin, even an apple core, which takes… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Take your rubbish home or to a bin, even an apple core, which takes months to rot and teaches animals to come close to people. Who acts: you, apple core. 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 pragmatic
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# Litter and caring for nature, sentence 1

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Take your rubbish home or to a bin, even an apple core, which takes months to rot and teaches animals to come close to people.

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**Who acts:** you, apple core · **What happens:** take, rot, teach, come · **To what, where:** rubbish, animals

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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 (you, apple core), 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:1
# text = Take your rubbish home or to a bin, even an apple core, which takes months to rot and teaches animals to come close to people.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl
28	.	.	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* | your rubbish |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | a apple core |  |  |  | month |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rot** | to-infinitive | a apple core *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a apple core *not said here* |  | animals |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | a apple core *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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