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title: Children never touch poisons, and pets are kept away from them. — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Children never touch poisons, and pets are kept away from them. Who acts: Children. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 11

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Children never touch poisons, and pets are kept away from them.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** not touch, keep away · **To what, where:** poisons, pets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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 (Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:11
# text = Children never touch poisons, and pets are kept away from them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **not** **touch** | present | Children | poisons |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme poison=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **keep away** | present · passive |  | pets |  |  |  | from children *= child*; away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from they=Eventuality |

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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): 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.

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