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title: Before a toy reaches a shop, testers pull, drop, chew-test and even… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics
description: Before a toy reaches a shop, testers pull, drop, chew-test and even burn samples on purpose, and a mark like CE or UKCA shows the maker says it meets the safety rules. Who acts: toy, testers, mark, maker. A sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Toys and Lego, sentence 3

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Before a toy reaches a shop, testers pull, drop, chew-test and even burn samples on purpose, and a mark like CE or UKCA shows the maker says it meets the safety rules.

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**Who acts:** toy, testers, mark, maker · **What happens:** reach, pull, drop, burn, show, say · **To what, where:** shop, samples, purpose, safety rules · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» 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 (toy, testers, mark, maker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:3
# text = Before a toy reaches a shop, testers pull, drop, chew-test and even burn samples on purpose, and a mark like CE or UKCA shows the maker says it meets the safety rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 007-toys-and-lego.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	testers	tester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	chew	chew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
19	samples	sample	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	CE	CE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	UKCA	UKCA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **reach** | present | a toy | a shop |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shop=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | present | testers |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drop** | infinitive | testers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | infinitive | testers *not said here* | samples |  | purpose |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sample=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | present | a mark like CE or UKCA |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the maker |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **meet** | present | maker | the safety rules |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Co-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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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