Chores and broken things, sentence 2

When something breaks, the real danger is the broken pieces, not bad luck: tiny glass slivers fly far and cut bare feet, so you stop, keep others away and tell a grown-up.

Who acts: something, real danger, tiny glass slivers, you · What happens: break, be, fly, cut, stop, keep away · To what, where: broken pieces, bare feet, others, grown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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 (something, real danger, tiny glass slivers, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 breaks	advmod
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 breaks	nsubj
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pieces	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 breaks	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 danger	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 danger	amod
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pieces	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pieces	det
10	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 luck	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bad	advmod
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 luck	amod
15	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 slivers	punct
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 slivers	amod
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slivers	compound
19	slivers	sliver	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fly	nsubj
20	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pieces	parataxis
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 fly	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cut	cc
23	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fly	conj
24	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feet	amod
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cut	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stop	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 stop	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 stop	nsubj
29	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fly	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 stop	conj
32	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 keep	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 keep	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tell	cc
35	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 cut	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 up	det
37	grown	grown-up	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obj
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 grown	punct
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 grown	compound
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pieces	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	present	something			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	the real danger	the broken pieces and bad luck		tree rules
3	fly	present	tiny glass slivers		far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cut	present	tiny glass slivers not said here	bare feet		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foot=Product
5	stop	present	you			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	keep away	infinitive	you not said here	others	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	tiny glass slivers not said here	grown		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient

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:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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