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title: Treats from trick-or-treating are checked by an adult before they ar… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics
description: Treats from trick-or-treating are checked by an adult before they are eaten. Who acts: adult. A sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Holidays of the region, sentence 6

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Treats from trick-or-treating are checked by an adult before they are eaten.

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**Who acts:** adult · **What happens:** check, eat · **To what, where:** Treats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» 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 (adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:6
# text = Treats from trick-or-treating are checked by an adult before they are eaten.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 265-holidays-of-the-region.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	Treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	treating	treating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **check** | present · passive | a adult | Treats from trick or treating |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | Treats *= treat* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:6`.

**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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