Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 24

Sharp objects, needles and strange things on the ground cause cuts and infections; you tell an adult instead of picking them up.

Who acts: Sharp objects, you · What happens: cause, tell, pick up · To what, where: cuts, adult · 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 (Sharp objects, 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	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 objects	amod
2	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cause	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 needles	punct
4	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 objects	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 things	cc
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 objects	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 things	nmod
11	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cause	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 infections	cc
14	infections	infection	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cuts	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cause	parataxis
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 adult	det
19	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 picking	mark
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 tell	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 picking	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 picking	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cause	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cause	present	Sharp objects and needles and strange things on the ground	cuts and infections		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cut=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	present	you		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	pick up	gerund	you not said here	cuts = cut		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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:24.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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