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title: A wet towel left on the floor stays damp, and damp carpet and cloth… — Homework, practice and the team counting on you · tree and pragmatics
description: A wet towel left on the floor stays damp, and damp carpet and cloth start to smell and can grow mould. Who acts: wet towel, damp carpet. A sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 19

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A wet towel left on the floor stays damp, and damp carpet and cloth start to smell and can grow mould.

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**Who acts:** wet towel, damp carpet · **What happens:** leave, stay, start, smell, grow · **To what, where:** wet towel, floor, mould

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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 (wet towel, damp carpet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:19
# text = A wet towel left on the floor stays damp, and damp carpet and cloth start to smell and can grow mould.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.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): R1-cc-next ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
12	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | a wet towel *not said here* |  | the floor |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | present | a wet towel |  |  |  |  | damp *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | present | damp carpet and cloth |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **smell** | to-infinitive | damp carpet and cloth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | can | damp carpet and cloth *not said here* | mould |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=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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**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:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:19`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3. **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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