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title: Rules often protect children from things they can't see yet, like fe… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics
description: Rules often protect children from things they can't see yet, like feeling sick from too many sweets. Who acts: Rules, child. A sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 39

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Rules often protect children from things they can't see yet, like feeling sick from too many sweets.

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**Who acts:** Rules, child · **What happens:** protect, not see, feel · **To what, where:** children, things, many sweets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 (Rules, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:39
# text = Rules often protect children from things they can't see yet, like feeling sick from too many sweets.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.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	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **protect** | present | Rules |  | children |  |  | from things; often *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from thing=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | child | things *not said here* |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | Rules *not said here* |  |  | many sweets |  | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:39`.

**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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