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title: Take off rings, earrings and necklaces before sport, because they ca… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Take off rings, earrings and necklaces before sport, because they can catch and tear skin. Who acts: you, rings. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 14

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Take off rings, earrings and necklaces before sport, because they can catch and tear skin.

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**Who acts:** you, rings · **What happens:** take off, catch, tear · **To what, where:** rings, skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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, rings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.lesson:14
# text = Take off rings, earrings and necklaces before sport, because they can catch and tear skin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.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): no change
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	earrings	earring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **take off** | imperative | you *not said here* | rings and earrings and necklaces |  |  | before sport |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | can | rings *= ring* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tear** | infinitive | rings *= ring* *not said here* | skin |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location skin=Theme |

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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:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.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): no change. **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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