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title: Hot plastic bottles can let tiny amounts of chemicals into water, bu… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics
description: Hot plastic bottles can let tiny amounts of chemicals into water, but studies found amounts far below safety limits; a refilled warm bottle can grow germs, so wash it. Who acts: Hot plastic bottles, studies, refilled warm bottle. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of th
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# Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 16

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Hot plastic bottles can let tiny amounts of chemicals into water, but studies found amounts far below safety limits; a refilled warm bottle can grow germs, so wash it.

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**Who acts:** Hot plastic bottles, studies, refilled warm bottle · **What happens:** let, find, refill, grow, wash, amount · **To what, where:** tiny amounts, water, amounts, safety limits, germs, chemicals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 (Hot plastic bottles, studies, refilled warm bottle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:16
# text = Hot plastic bottles can let tiny amounts of chemicals into water, but studies found amounts far below safety limits; a refilled warm bottle can grow germs, so wash it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
18	below	below	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	refilled	refill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
28	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **let** | can | Hot plastic bottles | tiny amounts of chemicals |  | water |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | studies | amounts |  | safety limits |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Topic |
| 3 | **refill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | can | a refilled warm bottle | germs |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=Theme |
| 5 | **wash** | infinitive | a refilled warm bottle *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **amount** |  |  | chemicals |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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