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title: Never joke about bombs or weapons at an airport; staff must treat ev… — Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones · tree and pragmatics
description: Never joke about bombs or weapons at an airport; staff must treat every such word as real. Who acts: you, staff. A sentence of the lesson «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones, sentence 8

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Never joke about bombs or weapons at an airport; staff must treat every such word as real.

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**Who acts:** you, staff · **What happens:** not joke, treat · **To what, where:** airport, such word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» 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 (you, staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:8
# text = Never joke about bombs or weapons at an airport; staff must treat every such word as real.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	joke	joke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bombs	bomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** **joke** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a airport |  | about bombs or weapons | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bomb=Topic |
| 2 | **treat** | must | staff | every such word |  |  |  | as real | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme as real=Attribute |

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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:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:8`.

**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): 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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