Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 1
Sharp things are carried and passed safely: child scissors closed and pointing down, handle first; grown-ups' razors and box cutters are not for children, and a used needle found outside is never touched.
Who acts: razors · What happens: carry, pass, close, point down, handle, grow · To what, where: Sharp things, child scissors, used needle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 (razors), 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 | Sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | aux:pass |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carried | conj |
| 7 | safely | safely | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 passed | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 scissors | punct |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scissors | compound |
| 10 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | conj |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 scissors | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pointing | cc |
| 13 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 closed | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 pointing | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 handle | punct |
| 16 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pointing | xcomp |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 handle | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ups | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grown | punct |
| 21 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 razors | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 ups | case |
| 23 | razors | razor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 children | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cutters | cc |
| 25 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cutters | compound |
| 26 | cutters | cutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 razors | conj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 children | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 children | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 children | case |
| 30 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 touched | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 touched | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 needle | det |
| 34 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 needle | amod |
| 35 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | found | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 needle | acl |
| 37 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 36 found | advmod |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 touched | aux:pass |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 touched | advmod |
| 40 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carried | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · passive | Sharp things | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | participle | safely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | close | participle | child scissors not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | point down | gerund | down property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | handle | infinitive | first property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | not is | present | grown ups's razors and box cutters | for children | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | use | participle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | found | participle | a used needle not said here | outside property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | not touch | present · passive | a used needle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:1.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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.
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