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title: If you see someone harming an animal or starting a fire, do not argu… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: If you see someone harming an animal or starting a fire, do not argue with them; tell a grown-up, a ranger (a person whose job is to look after a park or reserve) or the police, who can stop it safely. Who acts: you, job. A sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday course
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# Litter and caring for nature, sentence 6

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If you see someone harming an animal or starting a fire, do not argue with them; tell a grown-up, a ranger (a person whose job is to look after a park or reserve) or the police, who can stop it safely.

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**Who acts:** you, job · **What happens:** see, harm, start, not argue, tell, be · **To what, where:** someone, animal, fire, grown, job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, job), 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:6
# text = If you see someone harming an animal or starting a fire, do not argue with them; tell a grown-up, a ranger (a person whose job is to look after a park or reserve) or the police, who can stop it 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): 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	3	obj	_	_
5	harming	harm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
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	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	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	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ranger	ranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | someone |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **harm** | gerund |  | a animal |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
| 3 | **start** | gerund |  | 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* |  |  |  |  | with animals *= animal* | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-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 grown-up=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | present | job |  |  |  | after a park or reserve | look *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **stop** | can |  | job |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |

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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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**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.

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