Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 4

Ask a grown-up before using a big knife, cut on a chopping board, curl your fingers in and cut away from your body.

Who acts: you · What happens: ask, grow, use, cut, curl, cut away · To what, where: grown up, big knife, chopping board, fingers, body

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 (you), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 up	det
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 up	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 using	mark
7	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ask	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knife	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knife	amod
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct
12	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 board	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 board	det
15	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 board	compound
16	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 curl	punct
18	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fingers	nmod:poss
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 curl	obj
21	in	in	ADV	_	12 cut	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cut	cc
23	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 cut	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 body	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 body	nmod:poss
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	a grown up			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	gerund	you not said here	a big knife			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
4	cut	infinitive	you not said here		a chopping board		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	curl	infinitive	you not said here	your fingers			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
6	cut away	infinitive	you not said here		your body	away property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from body=Location

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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