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title: Do not eat from a can that is swollen or badly dented along its seams. — Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not eat from a can that is swollen or badly dented along its seams. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, sentence 17

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Do not eat from a can that is swollen or badly dented along its seams.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not eat, be, dent · **To what, where:** can

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:17
# text = Do not eat from a can that is swollen or badly dented along its seams.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:aux:pass
9	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	dented	dent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	seams	seam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **not** **eat** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  | a can |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from can=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present · passive |  | a can |  |  |  | swollen *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | along can's seams; badly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:17`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×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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