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title: Strings and cords can strangle, so keep them away from babies and ne… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics
description: Strings and cords can strangle, so keep them away from babies and never put a cord around anyone's neck. Who acts: Strings. A sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 8

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Strings and cords can strangle, so keep them away from babies and never put a cord around anyone's neck.

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**Who acts:** Strings · **What happens:** strangle, keep away, not put · **To what, where:** strings, babies, cord, neck

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 (Strings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:8
# text = Strings and cords can strangle, so keep them away from babies and never put a cord around anyone's neck.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 302-toys-and-board-games.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 ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **strangle** | can | Strings and cords |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep away** | infinitive | Strings and cords *not said here* | strings *= string* |  | babies |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary from baby=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **put** | infinitive | Strings and cords *not said here* | a cord |  | anyone's neck |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cord=Theme around neck=Destination |

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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:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:8`.

**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 ×1, 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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