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title: A metal slide, or a dark plastic one, in the summer sun can burn ski… — Running games and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: A metal slide, or a dark plastic one, in the summer sun can burn skin, so you touch it with your hand first. Who acts: metal slide, you. A sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Running games and the playground, sentence 15

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A metal slide, or a dark plastic one, in the summer sun can burn skin, so you touch it with your hand first.

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**Who acts:** metal slide, you · **What happens:** burn, touch · **To what, where:** skin, summer sun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» 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 (metal slide, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:15
# text = A metal slide, or a dark plastic one, in the summer sun can burn skin, so you touch it with your hand first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 247-running-games-and-playground.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **burn** | can | a metal slide or a dark plastic one | skin |  | the summer sun |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | present | you | skin |  |  |  | with your hand; first *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with hand=Instrument |

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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:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:15`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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