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title: The big rule: never go anywhere with anyone, never get into a car an… — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics
description: The big rule: never go anywhere with anyone, never get into a car and never take a gift, without checking first with your parent or carer; the point is that the adult who looks after you always knows where you are and who you are with. Who acts: adult, you. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tr
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# Strangers and tricky people, sentence 1

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The big rule: never go anywhere with anyone, never get into a car and never take a gift, without checking first with your parent or carer; the point is that the adult who looks after you always knows where you are and who you are with.

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**Who acts:** adult, you · **What happens:** not go, not get, not take, check, be, look after · **To what, where:** car, gift, point, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» 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 (adult, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:1
# text = The big rule: never go anywhere with anyone, never get into a car and never take a gift, without checking first with your parent or carer; the point is that the adult who looks after you always knows where you are and who you are with.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 058-strangers-and-tricky-people.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	carer	carer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
41	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	_
42	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	42	conj	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	conj	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	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 | **not** **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with anyone; anywhere *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with anyone=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **get** | infinitive |  |  |  | a car |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **take** | infinitive |  | a gift |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with your parent or carer; first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | the point |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look after** | present | the adult | you |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 7 | **know** | present | the adult |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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