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title: Pick berries above dog height and away from roads, because low ones… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pick berries above dog height and away from roads, because low ones may be dirty from dogs and roadside ones polluted by traffic fumes, and wash them before eating. Who acts: you, low ones. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the ev
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 14

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Pick berries above dog height and away from roads, because low ones may be dirty from dogs and roadside ones polluted by traffic fumes, and wash them before eating.

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**Who acts:** you, low ones · **What happens:** pick, be, pollute, wash, eat · **To what, where:** berries, dog height, dogs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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, low ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:14
# text = Pick berries above dog height and away from roads, because low ones may be dirty from dogs and roadside ones polluted by traffic fumes, and wash them before eating.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.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
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	above	above	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fumes	fume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | berries and roads |  | dog height |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | may | low ones |  |  |  |  | from dogs and roadside ones; dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pollute** | participle |  | dogs and roadside ones *not said here* |  |  |  | by traffic fumes | tree rules |
| 4 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | berries *= berry* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.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. **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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