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title: Do not draw on rocks, trees or signs, because it spoils the place fo… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not draw on rocks, trees or signs, because it spoils the place for others and is hard to remove. Who acts: you, litter. 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 13

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Do not draw on rocks, trees or signs, because it spoils the place for others and is hard to remove.

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**Who acts:** you, litter · **What happens:** not draw, spoil, be, remove · **To what, where:** rocks, place

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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, litter), 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:13
# text = Do not draw on rocks, trees or signs, because it spoils the place for others and is hard to remove.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **draw** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  | rocks and trees or signs |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rock=Destination |
| 2 | **spoil** | present | litter | the place |  |  |  | for others | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | litter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remove** | to-infinitive | litter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=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:13`.

**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, 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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