Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 10

A used needle or syringe found outside is never touched, because it can carry dangerous infections; you tell a grown-up.

Who acts: needle, you · What happens: use, find, not touch, carry, tell · To what, where: used needle, dangerous infections, grown up · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (needle, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 needle	det
2	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 needle	amod
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touched	nsubj:pass
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 syringe	cc
5	syringe	syringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needle	conj
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 needle	acl
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 found	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 touched	aux:pass
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 touched	advmod
10	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carry	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 carry	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 carry	aux
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 touched	advcl
16	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 infections	amod
17	infections	infection	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carry	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 touched	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 up	det
22	grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 up	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 up	punct
24	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 touched	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	participle				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	participle		a used needle or syringe not said here	outside property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	not touch	present · passive		a used needle or syringe		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	carry	can	needle	dangerous infections		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	present	you	a grown up		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:10.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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