Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 6
A blunt knife is not safer: it needs more force, so when it slips it cuts you.
Who acts: blunt knife, knife · What happens: not be, need, slip, cut · To what, where: more force, you
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 (blunt knife, 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 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knife | amod |
| 3 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 safer | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 safer | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 safer | advmod |
| 6 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 needs | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 safer | parataxis |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 force | amod |
| 11 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cuts | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 cuts | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 slips | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slips | nsubj |
| 16 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cuts | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cuts | nsubj |
| 18 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 needs | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cuts | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | not is | present | a blunt knife | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | knife | more force | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slip | present | knife | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | cut | present | knife | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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