Windows, balconies and furniture, sentence 6

Blind cords should be tied up high or wound on a cleat (a small hook fixed high on the wall), because a young child can get one around the neck and strangle.

Who acts: young child · What happens: tie up, wind, fix, get, strangle · To what, where: Blind cords, cleat, small hook, wall, one, neck

This is a sentence of the lesson «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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 (young child), 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	Blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cords	amod
2	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tied	aux:pass
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tied	compound:prt
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 tied	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 wound	cc
9	wound	wind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tied	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 cleat	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cleat	det
12	cleat	cleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wound	obl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 hook	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hook	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hook	amod
16	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cleat	appos
17	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hook	acl
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fixed	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fixed	obl
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 hook	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 get	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 child	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 child	amod
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wound	advcl
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 get	obj
31	around	around	ADP	_	33 neck	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 neck	det
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 strangle	cc
35	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 get	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie up	should · passive		Blind cords		high property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	wind	participle			a cleat		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on cleat=Trajectory
3	fix	participle		a small hook not said here	the wall	high property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	get	can	a young child	one	the neck		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
5	strangle	infinitive	a young child not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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