Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 10
Use child scissors, carry them closed and pointing down, and pass them handle first.
Who acts: you · What happens: use, carry, close, point down, pass · To what, where: child scissors, scissors
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scissors | compound |
| 3 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Use | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Use | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carry | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pointing | cc |
| 9 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 closed | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 pointing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pass | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pass | cc |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Use | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pass | obj |
| 15 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pass | xcomp |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 handle | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | child scissors | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | infinitive | you not said here | scissors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | point down | gerund | you not said here | down property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | you not said here | scissors | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:10.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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