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title: Edges of cliffs and quarries can crumble without warning, and quarry… — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics
description: Edges of cliffs and quarries can crumble without warning, and quarry water is very deep and very cold even on a hot day, so we keep well back. Who acts: Edges, quarry water, we. A sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, sentence 9

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Edges of cliffs and quarries can crumble without warning, and quarry water is very deep and very cold even on a hot day, so we keep well back.

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**Who acts:** Edges, quarry water, we · **What happens:** crumble, be, keep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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 (Edges, quarry water, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:9
# text = Edges of cliffs and quarries can crumble without warning, and quarry water is very deep and very cold even on a hot day, so we keep well back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	quarries	quarry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	crumble	crumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	quarry	quarry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **crumble** | can | Edges of cliffs and quarries |  |  |  |  | without warning | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | quarry water |  |  |  | day | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | quarry water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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