--- title: Age and height rules on rides are there for safety, not to spoil fun… — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Age and height rules on rides are there for safety, not to spoil fun: a smaller body can slip out under the safety bar, and ride staff often measure you anyway. Who acts: Age, smaller body, ride staff. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Age, smaller body, ride staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:22 # text = Age and height rules on rides are there for safety, not to spoil fun: a smaller body can slip out under the safety bar, and ride staff often measure you anyway. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.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 ×2 1 Age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rides ride NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 spoil spoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 15 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 staff staff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 often often ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 measure measure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Age and height and rules on rides | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **spoil** | to-infinitive | Age and height and rules on rides *not said here* | fun | | | | for safety | tree rules | | 3 | **slip out** | can | a smaller body | | | the safety bar | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **measure** | present | ride staff | you | | | | anyway, often *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value | 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. **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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:22`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/21/) - next →: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/)