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title: Never play near harbour edges, quays or mooring ropes; the water is… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics
description: Never play near harbour edges, quays or mooring ropes; the water is deep and cold and ropes can snap tight. Who acts: you, water, ropes. A sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 8

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Never play near harbour edges, quays or mooring ropes; the water is deep and cold and ropes can snap tight.

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**Who acts:** you, water, ropes · **What happens:** not play, be, snap · **To what, where:** harbour edges

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» 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, water, ropes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:8
# text = Never play near harbour edges, quays or mooring ropes; the water is deep and cold and ropes can snap tight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 024-ships-ports-and-submarines.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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	quays	quay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	mooring	mooring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **not** **play** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | harbour edges and quays or mooring ropes |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **snap** | can | ropes |  |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.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): 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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