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title: Dead branches are dry and brittle and can snap without warning. — Climbing trees and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead branches are dry and brittle and can snap without warning. Who acts: Dead branches. 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 9

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Dead branches are dry and brittle and can snap without warning.

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**Who acts:** Dead branches · **What happens:** be, snap

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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 (Dead branches), 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:9
# text = Dead branches are dry and brittle and can snap without warning.
# 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): no change
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brittle	brittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	warning	warn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Dead branches |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Dead branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **snap** | can | Dead branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without warning | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:9`.

**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/).

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