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title: Only cross a river where there is a bridge, or with a grown-up who s… — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only cross a river where there is a bridge, or with a grown-up who says it is safe; wet stones and logs are slippery. Who acts: you, bridge, wet stones. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 16

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Only cross a river where there is a bridge, or with a grown-up who says it is safe; wet stones and logs are slippery.

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**Who acts:** you, bridge, wet stones · **What happens:** cross, be, say · **To what, where:** river · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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, bridge, wet stones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:16
# text = Only cross a river where there is a bridge, or with a grown-up who says it is safe; wet stones and logs are slippery.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cross	cross	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cross** | imperative | you *not said here* | a river |  |  |  | with a grown | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | present | a bridge |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | bridge |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | wet stones and logs |  |  |  |  | slippery *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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:16`.

**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, R8-pos-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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