Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 21

If a little child grabs something sharp, do not snatch it by the blade; calmly swap it for a toy and get an adult.

Who acts: little child, you · What happens: grab, not snatch, swap, get · To what, where: something, lip, adult

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (little child, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 grabs	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabs	nsubj
5	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 snatch	advcl
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 grabs	obj
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 snatch	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 snatch	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 snatch	advmod
11	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 snatch	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 blade	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blade	det
15	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snatch	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 swap	punct
17	calmly	calmly	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 swap	advmod
18	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 snatch	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swap	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 toy	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 toy	det
22	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swap	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
24	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 swap	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 adult	det
26	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 snatch	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grab a condition, not said to happen	present	a little child	something		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	not snatch	imperative · do-support	you not said here	lip	by the blade	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	swap	infinitive		lip	for a toy; calmly property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for toy=Co-Theme
4	get	infinitive		a adult		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:21.

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 ×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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