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description: Strings and cords, like a yo-yo string or a pull-toy cord, can strangle a baby, so keep them away from babies and never put a cord around anyone's neck. Who acts: Strings. A sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» of the everyd
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# Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes, sentence 1

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Strings and cords, like a yo-yo string or a pull-toy cord, can strangle a baby, so keep them away from babies and never put a cord around anyone's neck.

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**Who acts:** Strings · **What happens:** strangle, keep away, not put · **To what, where:** baby, Strings, babies, cord, neck

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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 (Strings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:1
# text = Strings and cords, like a yo-yo string or a pull-toy cord, can strangle a baby, so keep them away from babies and never put a cord around anyone's neck.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	around	around	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **strangle** | can | Strings like a yo string or a toy cord and cords | a baby |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 2 | **keep away** | infinitive |  | Strings *= string* |  | babies |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary from baby=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **put** | infinitive |  | a cord |  | anyone's neck |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cord=Theme around neck=Destination |

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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): R5-strong ×1, 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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