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title: In a seizure, keep the person safe: move hard things away, never hol… — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a seizure, keep the person safe: move hard things away, never hold them down, put nothing in their mouth, time it and get a grown-up; if it lasts more than five minutes, call 999. Who acts: you, person. A sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of 
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# A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 31

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In a seizure, keep the person safe: move hard things away, never hold them down, put nothing in their mouth, time it and get a grown-up; if it lasts more than five minutes, call 999.

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**Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** keep, move away, not hold down, put, time, get · **To what, where:** person, seizure, hard things, things, nothing, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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 (you, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:31
# text = In a seizure, keep the person safe: move hard things away, never hold them down, put nothing in their mouth, time it and get a grown-up; if it lasts more than five minutes, call 999.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seizure	seizure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	time	time	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det
31	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=31:compound
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
38	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	40	advmod	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
44	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person |  | a seizure |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent person=Theme in seizure=Location |
| 2 | **move away** | infinitive |  | hard things |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hold down** | infinitive |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  | nothing |  | things's mouth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 5 | **time** | infinitive |  | person |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **last** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | person |  |  |  | minute |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **call** | infinitive |  | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |

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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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**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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