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title: Cords, drawstrings and scarves on clothes can catch on playground eq… — Climbing trees and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Cords, drawstrings and scarves on clothes can catch on playground equipment and pull tight around your neck. Who acts: Cords. A sentence of the lesson «Climbing trees and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Climbing trees and playgrounds, sentence 14

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Cords, drawstrings and scarves on clothes can catch on playground equipment and pull tight around your neck.

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**Who acts:** Cords · **What happens:** catch, pull · **To what, where:** playground equipment, neck

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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 (Cords), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:004-climbing.lesson:14
# text = Cords, drawstrings and scarves on clothes can catch on playground equipment and pull tight around your neck.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 004-climbing.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	drawstrings	drawstring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | can | Cords on clothes and drawstrings and scarves |  |  | playground equipment |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | Cords on clothes and drawstrings and scarves *not said here* |  |  | your neck |  | tight *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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:004-climbing.lesson:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/).

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