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title: Never drink from a bottle if you are not sure what is in it; people… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never drink from a bottle if you are not sure what is in it; people sometimes keep chemicals in old drink bottles. Who acts: you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 14

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Never drink from a bottle if you are not sure what is in it; people sometimes keep chemicals in old drink bottles.

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** not drink, not be, be, keep · **To what, where:** bottle, chemicals, old drink bottles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:14
# text = Never drink from a bottle if you are not sure what is in it; people sometimes keep chemicals in old drink bottles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	ccomp	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
19	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
24	.	.	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** **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a bottle |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bottle=Source |
| 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | bottle |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present | people | chemicals |  | old drink bottles |  | sometimes *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme in bottle=Location |

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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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:14`.

**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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