Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 5
Never leave or reach for a knife hidden under soapy water, because nobody can see the blade.
Who acts: you, nobody · What happens: not leave, reach, hide, see · To what, where: knife, soapy water, blade
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, nobody), 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 leave | advmod |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 reach | cc |
| 4 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 knife | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knife | det |
| 7 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reach | obl |
| 8 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knife | acl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | soapy | soapy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hidden | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 14 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leave | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blade | det |
| 18 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | infinitive | you not said here | for a knife | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hide | participle | a knife not said here | soapy water | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | can | nobody | the blade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blade=Stimulus |
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:5.
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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