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title: Keep a snack wrapper in your pocket or bag until you find a bin, bec… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep a snack wrapper in your pocket or bag until you find a bin, because litter harms animals and spoils places for everyone. 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 
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# Litter and caring for nature, sentence 9

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Keep a snack wrapper in your pocket or bag until you find a bin, because litter harms animals and spoils places for everyone.

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**Who acts:** you, litter · **What happens:** keep, find, harm, spoil · **To what, where:** snack wrapper, pocket, bin, animals, places

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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:9
# text = Keep a snack wrapper in your pocket or bag until you find a bin, because litter harms animals and spoils places for everyone.
# 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
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wrapper	wrapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case
17	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	harms	harm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | a snack wrapper |  | your pocket or bag |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wrapper=Theme in pocket=Location |
| 2 | **find** | present | you | a bin |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Topic |
| 3 | **harm** | present | litter | animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
| 4 | **spoil** | present | litter *not said here* | places |  |  |  | for everyone | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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