Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 14

A strimmer's nylon string spins so fast it cuts like a blade and throws stones and bits, which is why gardeners wear goggles and everyone else stays well away.

Who acts: nylon string, string, everyone · What happens: spin, cut, throw, be, stay · To what, where: stones

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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 (nylon string, string, everyone), 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 strimmer	det
2	strimmer	strimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 string	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 strimmer	case
4	nylon	nylon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 string	compound
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spins	nsubj
6	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 spins	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cuts	nsubj
10	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spins	advcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 blade	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blade	det
13	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cuts	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throws	cc
15	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cuts	conj
16	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 throws	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bits	cc
18	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stones	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wear	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 wear	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wear	cop
22	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 wear	advmod
23	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wear	nsubj
24	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spins	parataxis
25	goggles	goggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wear	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stays	cc
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 stays	nsubj
28	else	else	ADV	_	27 everyone	advmod
29	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wear	conj
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 away	advmod
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 stays	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spins	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spin	present	a strimmer's nylon string		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	present	string		like a blade	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3	throw	present	string not said here	stones and bits		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	is	present			wear property	tree rules
5	stay	present	everyone		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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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