Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 1
A sharp knife used slowly on a chopping board is safer than a blunt one, because a blunt knife needs more force and slips.
Who acts: sharp knife, blunt knife · What happens: use, be, need · To what, where: sharp knife, chopping board, more force
This is a sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» 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 (sharp knife, blunt knife), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knife | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knife | amod |
| 3 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 safer | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knife | acl |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 used | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 board | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 board | det |
| 8 | chopping | chopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 board | compound |
| 9 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 safer | cop |
| 11 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 safer | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 needs | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 needs | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knife | det |
| 19 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knife | amod |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | nsubj |
| 21 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 safer | advcl |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 force | amod |
| 23 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slips | cc |
| 25 | slips | slip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 force | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 safer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a sharp knife not said here | a chopping board | slowly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | a sharp knife | than a blunt one; safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | a blunt knife | more force and slips | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme |
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:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:1.
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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