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title: Never dig deep tunnels in snow banks, especially near roads, because… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Never dig deep tunnels in snow banks, especially near roads, because snow can collapse and ploughs cannot see you. Who acts: you, snow, ploughs. 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
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# Building and making things safely, sentence 24

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Never dig deep tunnels in snow banks, especially near roads, because snow can collapse and ploughs cannot see you.

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**Who acts:** you, snow, ploughs · **What happens:** not dig, collapse, not see · **To what, where:** deep tunnels, snow banks, you

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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, snow, ploughs), 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:24
# text = Never dig deep tunnels in snow banks, especially near roads, because snow can collapse and ploughs cannot see you.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	collapse	collapse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
18	ploughs	plough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dig** | imperative | you *not said here* | deep tunnels |  | snow banks |  | near roads | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme in bank=Location |
| 2 | **collapse** | can | snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **see** | can | ploughs | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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:24`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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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