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title: A lawnmower blade can spin about fifty times a second and can throw… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics
description: A lawnmower blade can spin about fifty times a second and can throw stones, so children stay indoors or far away while it runs and never ride on or near a ride-on mower. Who acts: lawnmower blade, children, blade. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology course of Mova
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# Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 13

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A lawnmower blade can spin about fifty times a second and can throw stones, so children stay indoors or far away while it runs and never ride on or near a ride-on mower.

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**Who acts:** lawnmower blade, children, blade · **What happens:** spin, throw, stay, run, not ride · **To what, where:** stones, ride mower

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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 (lawnmower blade, children, blade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.lesson:13
# text = A lawnmower blade can spin about fifty times a second and can throw stones, so children stay indoors or far away while it runs and never ride on or near a ride-on mower.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lawnmower	lawnmower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	mower	mower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	.	.	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 | **spin** | can | a lawnmower blade |  |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | can | a lawnmower blade *not said here* | stones |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | present | children |  |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | present | blade |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **ride** | infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  | a ride mower |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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**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. **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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