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title: A hard hat area sign means stay out; only workers with protection ma… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics
description: A hard hat area sign means stay out; only workers with protection may enter. Who acts: area sign, workers. A sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 16

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A hard hat area sign means stay out; only workers with protection may enter.

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**Who acts:** area sign, workers · **What happens:** mean, stay out, enter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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 (area sign, workers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:16
# text = A hard hat area sign means stay out; only workers with protection may enter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | a area sign |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay out** *not said to happen* | infinitive | a area sign *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | may | workers with protection |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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**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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:16`.

**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): 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/).

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