--- title: Matches and lighters are for grown-ups; children should leave them a… — Going where you're not allowed · tree and pragmatics description: Matches and lighters are for grown-ups; children should leave them alone and tell an adult if they find them. Who acts: children. A sentence of the lesson «Going where you're not allowed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Going where you're not allowed](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/) / 16 # Going where you're not allowed, sentence 16 Matches and lighters are for grown-ups; children should leave them alone and tell an adult if they find them. **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** grow, be, leave, tell, find · **To what, where:** ups, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Going where you're not allowed» 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 (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.lesson:16 # text = Matches and lighters are for grown-ups; children should leave them alone and tell an adult if they find them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.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 Matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 lighters lighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 alone alone ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | for grown ups | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | should | children | ups *= up* | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | children *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | children *= child* | ups *= up* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | 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:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.lesson:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Going where you're not allowed, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/15/) - next →: [Going where you're not allowed, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/)