--- title: If you see someone harm an animal or start a fire, do not argue; tel… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics description: If you see someone harm an animal or start a fire, do not argue; tell a grown-up, a ranger or the police. Who acts: you, someone. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Litter and caring for nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/) / 18 # Litter and caring for nature, sentence 18 If you see someone harm an animal or start a fire, do not argue; tell a grown-up, a ranger or the police. **Who acts:** you, someone · **What happens:** see, harm, start, not argue, tell · **To what, where:** animal, fire, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, someone), 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:18 # text = If you see someone harm an animal or start a fire, do not argue; tell a grown-up, a ranger or the police. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 5 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 argue argue VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ranger ranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **harm** | infinitive | someone | a animal | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | | 3 | **start** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | a fire | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **argue** *speech: disagree* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a grown and a ranger or the police | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient | 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. **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:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Litter and caring for nature, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/16/) - next →: [Litter and caring for nature, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/)