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title: Drills practise keeping safe: in a lockdown drill (practice for stay… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: Drills practise keeping safe: in a lockdown drill (practice for staying hidden inside when there may be danger outside the classroom) you stay silent and away from doors and windows; in an earthquake drill you drop, cover under a desk and hold on. Who acts: Drills, practice, you. A sentence of the l
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# Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 2

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Drills practise keeping safe: in a lockdown drill (practice for staying hidden inside when there may be danger outside the classroom) you stay silent and away from doors and windows; in an earthquake drill you drop, cover under a desk and hold on.

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**Who acts:** Drills, practice, you · **What happens:** practise, keep, stay, hide, be, drop · **To what, where:** danger, lockdown drill, earthquake drill, desk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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 (Drills, practice, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:2
# text = Drills practise keeping safe: in a lockdown drill (practice for staying hidden inside when there may be danger outside the classroom) you stay silent and away from doors and windows; in an earthquake drill you drop, cover under a desk and hold on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Drills	drill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound
2	practise	practise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lockdown	lockdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:expl
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:aux
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
21	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
43	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=42:conj
48	on	on	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | present | Drills |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | Drills *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stay** | gerund | practice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | participle | practice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive | practice *not said here* | danger |  |  |  | outside the classroom | tree rules |
| 6 | **stay** | present | you |  |  | a lockdown drill |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drill=Location |
| 7 | **drop** | present | you |  |  | a earthquake drill |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in drill=Trajectory |
| 8 | **cover** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | a desk |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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.

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