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title: Never release balloons outdoors, because they come down as litter th… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Never release balloons outdoors, because they come down as litter that animals swallow or get tangled in. Who acts: you, animals. 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 12

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Never release balloons outdoors, because they come down as litter that animals swallow or get tangled in.

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**Who acts:** you, animals · **What happens:** not release, come down, swallow, get, tangle · **To what, where:** balloons, litter

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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, animals), 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:12
# text = Never release balloons outdoors, because they come down as litter that animals swallow or get tangled in.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	release	release	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	balloons	balloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:xcomp
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** **release** | imperative | you *not said here* | balloons |  |  |  | outdoors *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer balloon=Source |
| 2 | **come down** | present | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | as litter; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swallow** | present | animals | litter |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **tangle** | participle | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:12`.

**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.

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