--- title: Children never touch fireworks or sparklers on the Fourth of July or… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics description: Children never touch fireworks or sparklers on the Fourth of July or any day without an adult supervising; a sparkler is held in a gloved hand at arm's length. Who acts: Children, adult. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, 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:9 # text = Children never touch fireworks or sparklers on the Fourth of July or any day without an adult supervising; a sparkler is held in a gloved hand at arm's length. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fireworks firework NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sparklers sparkler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 without without ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 18 supervising supervise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sparkler sparkler NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 gloved glove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **touch** | present | Children | fireworks or sparklers | | | | on the Fourth of July without a adult or any day | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent firework=Experiencer on fourth=Theme | | 2 | **supervise** | gerund | a adult *not said here* | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hold** | present · passive | | a sparkler | | a gloved hand | | at arm's length | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hand=Location | | 4 | **glove** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Holidays of the region, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/8/) - next →: [Holidays of the region, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/)