Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 13

Never touch a needle or syringe you find; mark the spot and tell a grown-up, because needles can carry blood-borne diseases.

Who acts: you, needles · What happens: not touch, find, mark, tell, grow, carry · To what, where: needle, spot, grown up, borne diseases · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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, needles), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 touch	advmod
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 needle	det
4	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touch	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 syringe	cc
6	syringe	syringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needle	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needle	acl:relcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 mark	punct
10	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 touch	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spot	det
12	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mark	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 mark	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 up	det
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 up	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 up	punct
18	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carry	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 carry	mark
21	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carry	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 carry	aux
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	advcl
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 borne	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 blood	punct
26	borne	borne	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 diseases	amod
27	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carry	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 touch	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not touch	imperative	you not said here	a needle or syringe	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme needle=Co-Theme
2	find	present	you	a needle or syringe not said here	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Topic
3	mark	infinitive		the spot	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent spot=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a grown up	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
5	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	carry	can	needles	borne diseases	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme
7	borne	participle			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:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:13.

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 ×4, 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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