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title: He gives it to his dad at once, and they tape the toy's battery cove… — Safe toys for you and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: He gives it to his dad at once, and they tape the toy's battery cover shut. Who acts: boy, Toys. 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 7

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He gives it to his dad at once, and they tape the toy's battery cover shut.

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**Who acts:** boy, Toys · **What happens:** give, tape · **To what, where:** battery, dad, battery cover

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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, Toys), 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:7
# text = He gives it to his dad at once, and they tape the toy's battery cover shut.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tape	tape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
14	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **give** | present | boy | battery | boy's dad |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dad=Recipient at once=Asset |
| 2 | **tape** | present | Toys *= toy* | the toy's battery cover |  |  |  | shut *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×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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