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title: Never throw or drop anything from a balcony; even a small object fal… — Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen met… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never throw or drop anything from a balcony; even a small object falling from high up can badly hurt someone. Who acts: you, small object. A sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» of the everyday c
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# Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 14

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Never throw or drop anything from a balcony; even a small object falling from high up can badly hurt someone.

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**Who acts:** you, small object · **What happens:** not throw, drop, fall, hurt · **To what, where:** anything, balcony, high up, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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, small object), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:14
# text = Never throw or drop anything from a balcony; even a small object falling from high up can badly hurt someone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	drop	drop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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** **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **drop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | anything |  | a balcony |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from balcony=Destination |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund | a small object *not said here* |  |  | high up |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from up=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hurt** | can | a small object | someone |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |

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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:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.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): R7-rel-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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