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title: In a museum or gallery, do not touch exhibits unless signs say you c… — Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to spea… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a museum or gallery, do not touch exhibits unless signs say you can, because they can be old and fragile. Who acts: you, signs, exhibits. A sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hi
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# Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities, sentence 14

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In a museum or gallery, do not touch exhibits unless signs say you can, because they can be old and fragile.

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**Who acts:** you, signs, exhibits · **What happens:** not touch, say, be · **To what, where:** exhibits, museum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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, signs, exhibits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:14
# text = In a museum or gallery, do not touch exhibits unless signs say you can, because they can be old and fragile.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fragile	fragile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | exhibits |  | a museum or gallery |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exhibit=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | signs |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | can | exhibits *= exhibit* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | exhibits *= exhibit* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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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