Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 4

Never let anyone climb into a washing machine, tumble dryer or old fridge; children can be trapped and suffocate, which means they cannot breathe.

Who acts: you, anyone, children · What happens: not let, climb, tumble, trap, suffocate, mean · To what, where: anyone, washing machine, dryer, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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, anyone, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 let	obj
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 machine	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 machine	det
7	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 machine	compound
8	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tumble	punct
10	tumble	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 climb	conj
11	dryer	dryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tumble	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 fridge	cc
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fridge	amod
14	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dryer	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 trapped	punct
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 trapped	nsubj:pass
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 trapped	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 trapped	aux:pass
19	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 let	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 suffocate	cc
21	suffocate	suffocate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trapped	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 means	nsubj
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 suffocate	parataxis
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 breathe	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 breathe	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 breathe	advmod
28	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 means	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not let	imperative	you not said here	anyone		tree rules
2	climb	infinitive	anyone not said here		a washing machine	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into machine=Destination
3	tumble	infinitive	anyone not said here	dryer or old fridge		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dryer=Theme
4	trap	can · passive		children		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	suffocate	infinitive				vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient
6	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not breathe	can	children = child			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Licence: CC 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:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:4.

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.

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