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title: In a museum or gallery, walk calmly and do not touch exhibits unless… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a museum or gallery, walk calmly and do not touch exhibits unless a sign says you may, because many are old and fragile. Who acts: you, sign, many. A sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 22

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In a museum or gallery, walk calmly and do not touch exhibits unless a sign says you may, because many are old and fragile.

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**Who acts:** you, sign, many · **What happens:** walk, not touch, say, be · **To what, where:** museum, exhibits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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, sign, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:22
# text = In a museum or gallery, walk calmly and do not touch exhibits unless a sign says you may, because many are old and fragile.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:aux
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fragile	fragile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a museum or gallery |  | calmly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in museum=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | exhibits |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exhibit=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a sign |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | many |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:22`.

**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 ×2. **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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