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title: Never tie ropes to playground equipment or climb wearing a scarf or… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Never tie ropes to playground equipment or climb wearing a scarf or hoodie cords, because they can strangle. Who acts: you, scarves. 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 pragmati
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 9

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Never tie ropes to playground equipment or climb wearing a scarf or hoodie cords, because they can strangle.

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**Who acts:** you, scarves · **What happens:** not tie, climb, wear, strangle · **To what, where:** ropes, scarf

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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, scarves), 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:9
# text = Never tie ropes to playground equipment or climb wearing a scarf or hoodie cords, because they can strangle.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tie** | imperative | you *not said here* | ropes |  |  |  | to playground equipment | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to equipment=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **climb** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | gerund | you *not said here* | a scarf or hoodie cords |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme |
| 4 | **strangle** | can | scarves *= scarf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «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:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.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): 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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