---
title: Safety myths are tricky because some are made up, some are true, and… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Safety myths are tricky because some are made up, some are true, and some give good advice for the wrong reason; laughing at all of them could get someone hurt. Who acts: Safety myths, some, laughing, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths cou
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Petrol stations, pools and things that…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/) / 1

# Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Safety myths are tricky because some are made up, some are true, and some give good advice for the wrong reason; laughing at all of them could get someone hurt.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Safety myths, some, laughing, someone · **What happens:** be, make up, give, laugh, get, hurt · **To what, where:** some, good advice, all, someone

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (Safety myths, some, laughing, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:1
# text = Safety myths are tricky because some are made up, some are true, and some give good advice for the wrong reason; laughing at all of them could get someone hurt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tricky	tricky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
32	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Safety myths |  |  |  |  | tricky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | present · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | present | some | good advice |  |  |  | for the wrong reason | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent advice=Theme for reason=Asset |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **get** | could | laughing | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hurt** | participle | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Petrol stations, pools and things that…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/0/)
- next →: [Petrol stations, pools and things that…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/)

