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title: At a firework display, stand behind the barrier, because fireworks c… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: At a firework display, stand behind the barrier, because fireworks can burn and injure people who are too close. Who acts: you, fireworks, people. A sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 17

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At a firework display, stand behind the barrier, because fireworks can burn and injure people who are too close.

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**Who acts:** you, fireworks, people · **What happens:** stand, burn, injure, be · **To what, where:** firework display, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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 (you, fireworks, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:17
# text = At a firework display, stand behind the barrier, because fireworks can burn and injure people who are too close.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 276-money-and-crowds-in-town.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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	barrier	barrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a firework display |  | behind the barrier | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at display=Location |
| 2 | **burn** | can | fireworks |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **injure** | infinitive | fireworks *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |

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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:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:17`.

**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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