Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 7
Razors, craft knives and box cutters are for grown-ups only, because their blades are very sharp and slip easily.
Who acts: blades · What happens: grow, be, slip
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 (blades), 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 | Razors | razor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knives | punct |
| 3 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knives | compound |
| 4 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Razors | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cutters | cc |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cutters | compound |
| 7 | cutters | cutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Razors | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ups | cop |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 ups | case |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ups | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
| 12 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Razors | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 ups | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sharp | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 sharp | mark |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blades | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sharp | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sharp | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 sharp | advmod |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Razors | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slip | cc |
| 22 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sharp | conj |
| 23 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 22 slip | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Razors | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | for grown ups | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | cutters's blades | sharp property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slip | present | cutters's blades not said here | easily property | 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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:7.
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): no change. 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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