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title: Ask before using a cardboard box for a project, and recycle it after. — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask before using a cardboard box for a project, and recycle it after. Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# Building and making things safely, sentence 23

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Ask before using a cardboard box for a project, and recycle it after.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, use, recycle · **To what, where:** cardboard box, box

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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), 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:23
# text = Ask before using a cardboard box for a project, and recycle it after.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	recycle	recycle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	after	after	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | a cardboard box |  |  |  | for a project | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent box=Theme for project=Eventuality |
| 3 | **recycle** | infinitive | you *not said here* | box |  |  |  | after *property* | 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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:23`.

**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. **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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