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title: Fingers stay clear of a closing power window, because it can trap an… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fingers stay clear of a closing power window, because it can trap and hurt them. Who acts: Fingers, window. A sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 9

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Fingers stay clear of a closing power window, because it can trap and hurt them.

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**Who acts:** Fingers, window · **What happens:** stay, close, trap, hurt · **To what, where:** Fingers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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 (Fingers, window), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:9
# text = Fingers stay clear of a closing power window, because it can trap and hurt them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.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	Fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	trap	trap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **stay** | present | Fingers |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **close** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **trap** | can | window |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hurt** | infinitive | window *not said here* | Fingers *= finger* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.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): 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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