Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 9
Do not use a knife to lever open a lid; ask for help, because the knife can snap or slip.
Who acts: you, knife · What happens: not use, lever, open, ask, snap, slip · To what, where: knife, lid
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, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 use | advmod |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lever | mark |
| 7 | lever | lever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 use | advcl |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lever | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lid | det |
| 10 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 snap | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 snap | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knife | det |
| 18 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 snap | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 snap | aux |
| 20 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 slip | cc |
| 22 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 snap | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a knife | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lever | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | you not said here | a lid | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | snap | can | the knife | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | slip | infinitive | the knife not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:9.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/9/