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title: Example: a boy in Manchester finds a button battery under the sofa w… — Safe toys for you and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: a boy in Manchester finds a button battery under the sofa where his baby sister crawls. Who acts: boy, baby sister. A sentence of the lesson «Safe toys for you and little ones» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe toys for you and little ones, sentence 6

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Example: a boy in Manchester finds a button battery under the sofa where his baby sister crawls.

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**Who acts:** boy, baby sister · **What happens:** find, crawl · **To what, where:** button battery, sofa

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys for you and little ones» 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 (boy, baby sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:241-safe-toys.lesson:6
# text = Example: a boy in Manchester finds a button battery under the sofa where his baby sister crawls.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 241-safe-toys.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj:outer
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	crawls	crawl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | a boy in Manchester | a button battery |  | the sofa |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Topic |
| 2 | **crawl** | present | boy's baby sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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:241-safe-toys.lesson:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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