Safe in the kitchen, sentence 13
If a knife falls, step back and let it drop; never try to catch it.
Who acts: knife, you, board · What happens: fall, step back, let, drop, not try, catch · To what, where: board
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» 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 (knife, you, board), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 falls | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knife | det |
| 3 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | nsubj |
| 4 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 step | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 falls | punct |
| 6 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 step | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 step | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 try | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 try | advmod |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 step | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 step | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | a knife | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | step back | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | board | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drop | infinitive | board not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | board | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:031-kitchen-safety.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): R7-rel-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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