Building and making things safely, sentence 18
Ask an adult to take out a splinter with clean tweezers, because a splinter left in can get infected.
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, take out, leave in, get · To what, where: adult, splinter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 splinter | det |
| 8 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tweezers | case |
| 10 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tweezers | amod |
| 11 | tweezers | tweezer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 splinter | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 infected | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 splinter | det |
| 15 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 infected | nsubj |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 splinter | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 left | compound:prt |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 infected | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | advcl |
| 20 | infected | infected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take out not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a splinter | with clean tweezers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave in | participle | a splinter not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | you not said here | infected property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:18.
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 ×3. 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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