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title: Holes in sand deeper than your knees and tunnels in sand or snow can… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Holes in sand deeper than your knees and tunnels in sand or snow can fall in and bury a child, and snowploughs cannot see a fort in a snowbank by the road. Who acts: Holes, snowploughs. A sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Building and making things safely, sentence 8

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Holes in sand deeper than your knees and tunnels in sand or snow can fall in and bury a child, and snowploughs cannot see a fort in a snowbank by the road.

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**Who acts:** Holes, snowploughs · **What happens:** fall in, bury, not see · **To what, where:** child, fort, snowbank

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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 (Holes, snowploughs), 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:8
# text = Holes in sand deeper than your knees and tunnels in sand or snow can fall in and bury a child, and snowploughs cannot see a fort in a snowbank by the road.
# 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	Holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	fall	fall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	snowploughs	snowplough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	snowbank	snowbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **fall in** | can | Holes in sand and tunnels in sand or snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** | infinitive | Holes in sand and tunnels in sand or snow *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | can | snowploughs | a fort |  | a snowbank |  | by the road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fort=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:8`.

**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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