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title: Do not dig holes in sand deeper than your knees or tunnel into the s… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not dig holes in sand deeper than your knees or tunnel into the sand, because they can collapse and bury a child. Who acts: you, Sand. A sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Building and making things safely, sentence 22

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Do not dig holes in sand deeper than your knees or tunnel into the sand, because they can collapse and bury a child.

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**Who acts:** you, Sand · **What happens:** not dig, tunnel, collapse, bury · **To what, where:** holes, sand, child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» 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, Sand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:22
# text = Do not dig holes in sand deeper than your knees or tunnel into the sand, because they can collapse and bury a child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tunnel	tunnel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	collapse	collapse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **dig** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | holes |  | sand |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in sand=Location |
| 2 | **tunnel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into sand=Location |
| 3 | **collapse** | can | Sand |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bury** | infinitive | Sand *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:22`.

**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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