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description: Pick blackberries only when a grown-up has identified them, above dog height and away from roads, and wash them first, because some berries look alike and some are poisonous. Who acts: you, grown up, berries, some. A sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fi
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# Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 12

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Pick blackberries only when a grown-up has identified them, above dog height and away from roads, and wash them first, because some berries look alike and some are poisonous.

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**Who acts:** you, grown up, berries, some · **What happens:** pick, identify, wash, look, be · **To what, where:** blackberries, dog height

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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, grown up, berries, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:12
# text = Pick blackberries only when a grown-up has identified them, above dog height and away from roads, and wash them first, because some berries look alike and some are poisonous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.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	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	identified	identify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis
30	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | blackberries |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Patient |
| 2 | **identify** | present · perfect | a grown up | blackberries *= blackberry* |  | dog height |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | blackberries *= blackberry* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | present | some berries |  |  |  |  | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | 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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**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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