Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 4

A needle can carry blood diseases, a bottle may hold a chemical, a firework or flare may still explode, and a rusty nail can cause tetanus if it cuts you.

Who acts: needle, bottle, firework, rusty nail, nail · What happens: carry, hold, explode, cause, cut · To what, where: blood diseases, chemical, tetanus, you

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 (needle, bottle, firework, rusty nail), 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	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 diseases	compound
6	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hold	aux
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carry	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chemical	det
13	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 explode	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 firework	det
16	firework	firework	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 explode	nsubj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 flare	cc
18	flare	flare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 firework	conj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 explode	aux
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 explode	advmod
21	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hold	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cause	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cause	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nail	det
25	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nail	amod
26	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cause	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cause	aux
28	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hold	conj
29	tetanus	tetanus	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cause	obj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 cuts	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cuts	nsubj
32	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cause	advcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 cuts	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	carry	can	a needle	blood diseases		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme
2	hold	may	a bottle	a chemical		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme
3	explode	may	a firework or flare		still	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cause	can	a rusty nail	tetanus		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tetanus=Patient
5	cut a condition, not said to happen	present	nail	you		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

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:4.

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. 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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