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title: Opening an umbrella indoors can knock a lamp or poke an eye, so care… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics
description: Opening an umbrella indoors can knock a lamp or poke an eye, so care is sensible, but it cannot make anything happen a week later. Who acts: Opening, care, anything. A sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 18

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Opening an umbrella indoors can knock a lamp or poke an eye, so care is sensible, but it cannot make anything happen a week later.

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**Who acts:** Opening, care, anything · **What happens:** open, knock, poke, be, not make, not happen · **To what, where:** umbrella, lamp, eye, anything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (Opening, care, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:18
# text = Opening an umbrella indoors can knock a lamp or poke an eye, so care is sensible, but it cannot make anything happen a week later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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 ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	poke	poke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl:unmarked
28	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **open** | gerund |  | a umbrella |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location umbrella=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | can | Opening | a lamp |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient |
| 3 | **poke** | infinitive | Opening *not said here* | a eye |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | care |  |  |  |  | sensible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **make** | can | care | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **happen** | infinitive | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:18`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×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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