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title: Animals swallow plastic and balloon pieces or get tangled in strings… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals swallow plastic and balloon pieces or get tangled in strings, so never let a balloon go outdoors. Who acts: Animals, balloon. 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 3

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Animals swallow plastic and balloon pieces or get tangled in strings, so never let a balloon go outdoors.

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**Who acts:** Animals, balloon · **What happens:** swallow, tangle, not let, go · **To what, where:** plastic pieces, strings, balloon

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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 (Animals, balloon), 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:3
# text = Animals swallow plastic and balloon pieces or get tangled in strings, so never let a balloon go outdoors.
# 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): no change
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | present | Animals | plastic pieces |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
| 2 | **tangle** | infinitive · passive | Animals *not said here* |  |  | strings |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **let** | infinitive | Animals *not said here* | a balloon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | a balloon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outdoors *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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