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title: For a child today this means switching off lights, walking when you… — The environment · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today this means switching off lights, walking when you can, sharing things fairly and speaking up for nature politely and bravely. Who acts: this. A sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The environment, sentence 4

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For a child today this means switching off lights, walking when you can, sharing things fairly and speaking up for nature politely and bravely.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** mean, switch off, walk, share, speak up · **To what, where:** lights, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics 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 (this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:4
# text = For a child today this means switching off lights, walking when you can, sharing things fairly and speaking up for nature politely and bravely.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 047-the-environment.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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	switching	switch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | this |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **switch off** | gerund |  | lights |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **share** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  | fairly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for nature; politely *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:4`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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