Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 7
Carry scissors closed with the points down, and pass them handle first.
Who acts: you · What happens: carry, close, pass, handle · To what, where: scissors
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 (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 | Carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Carry | obj |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 scissors | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 points | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 points | det |
| 6 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 closed | obl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 closed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pass | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pass | cc |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Carry | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pass | obj |
| 12 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pass | xcomp |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 handle | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | scissors | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | scissors not said here | with the points; down property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with point=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | you not said here | scissors | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | handle | infinitive | you not said here | first property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: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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