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title: "You can't get burnt when it's cloudy," says your big sister, and co… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics
description: "You can't get burnt when it's cloudy," says your big sister, and comes home pink. Who acts: You, telly, big sister. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 2

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"You can't get burnt when it's cloudy," says your big sister, and comes home pink.

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**Who acts:** You, telly, big sister · **What happens:** not get, be, say, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, telly, big sister), 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:2
# text = "You can't get burnt when it's cloudy," says your big sister, and comes home pink.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
6	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | can | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | telly |  |  |  |  | cloudy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | your big sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | present | your big sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home, pink *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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