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title: Never leave a small child alone in a bath; call an adult instead. — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never leave a small child alone in a bath; call an adult instead. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 8

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Never leave a small child alone in a bath; call an adult instead.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not leave, call · **To what, where:** small child, bath, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:8
# text = Never leave a small child alone in a bath; call an adult instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **not** **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | a small child |  | a bath |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in bath=Location |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  | instead *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:8`.

**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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