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title: Outdoors, small things are best dealt with early, and some places ar… — Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges… · tree and pragmatics
description: Outdoors, small things are best dealt with early, and some places are never worth the risk: keep off icy playground equipment, tell a grown-up about a blister early, and stay well back from cliff edges and quarries. Who acts: places. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cli
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# Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety, sentence 0

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Outdoors, small things are best dealt with early, and some places are never worth the risk: keep off icy playground equipment, tell a grown-up about a blister early, and stay well back from cliff edges and quarries.

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**Who acts:** places · **What happens:** deal, not be, keep off, tell, grow up, stay back · **To what, where:** small things, icy playground equipment, grown blister, cliff edges · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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 (places), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.lesson:0
# text = Outdoors, small things are best dealt with early, and some places are never worth the risk: keep off icy playground equipment, tell a grown-up about a blister early, and stay well back from cliff edges and quarries.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	best	good	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
22	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
28	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=28:compound
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	blister	blister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
34	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
38	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
39	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	quarries	quarry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | present · passive |  | small things |  |  |  | early, good, outdoors *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | some places |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep off** | infinitive |  | icy playground equipment |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipment=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | a grown blister |  |  |  | early *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blister=Recipient |
| 5 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stay back** | infinitive |  |  |  | cliff edges and quarries |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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