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title: Most accidents happen in an ordinary moment: a toddler pulls a dangl… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics
description: Most accidents happen in an ordinary moment: a toddler pulls a dangling cable, a cup of tea is left at the edge of the table, a stone flies out from under the mower. Who acts: Most accidents, toddler, stone. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology course of Mova's pri
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# Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 2

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Most accidents happen in an ordinary moment: a toddler pulls a dangling cable, a cup of tea is left at the edge of the table, a stone flies out from under the mower.

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**Who acts:** Most accidents, toddler, stone · **What happens:** happen, pull, dangling, leave, fly out · **To what, where:** dangling cable, cup, edge, 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 (Most accidents, toddler, stone), 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:2
# text = Most accidents happen in an ordinary moment: a toddler pulls a dangling cable, a cup of tea is left at the edge of the table, a stone flies out from under the 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dangling	dangling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mower	mower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **happen** | present | Most accidents |  |  |  | moment |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | present | a toddler | a dangling cable |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cable=Theme |
| 3 | **dangling** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  | a cup of tea |  | the edge of the table |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at edge=Location |
| 5 | **fly out** | present | a stone |  |  | the mower |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mower=Trajectory |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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