--- title: Broken glass left on the ground can cut people and animals for years… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Broken glass left on the ground can cut people and animals for years, so if you break a bottle, tell a grown-up and help clean it up safely. Who acts: Broken glass, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Broken glass, you), 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:22 # text = Broken glass left on the ground can cut people and animals for years, so if you break a bottle, tell a grown-up and help clean it up safely. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 safely safely ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | Broken glass *not said here* | | the ground | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | | 3 | **cut** | can | Broken glass | people and animals | | | year | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 4 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a bottle | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a grown up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **help** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **clean up** | infinitive | | up | | | | safely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:22`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Litter and caring for nature, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/21/) - next →: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/)