Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 8
Children never use or play with grown-ups' razors, because the blades are extremely sharp.
Who acts: Children, blades · What happens: not use, play, grow, be
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 (Children, 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 use | advmod |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 play | cc |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 use | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 razors | case |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ups | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ups | punct |
| 9 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 razors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 ups | case |
| 11 | razors | razor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sharp | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 sharp | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blades | det |
| 15 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sharp | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sharp | cop |
| 17 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 18 sharp | advmod |
| 18 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 use | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | 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 | not use | present | Children | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | Children not said here | with grown ups's razors | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with razor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the blades | extremely, sharp property | tree rules |
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:8.
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): 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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