Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 17

A shredder's blades can catch fingers, hair, ties and sleeves; many have a slot too thin for a small child's fingers, and children do not use one alone.

Who acts: blades, many, children · What happens: catch, have, not use · To what, where: fingers, slot, one

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 (blades, many, children), 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 shredder	det
2	shredder	shredder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blades	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 shredder	case
4	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fingers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ties	punct
11	ties	tie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fingers	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sleeves	cc
13	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fingers	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 slot	det
18	slot	slot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 thin	advmod
20	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 slot	amod
21	for	for	ADP	_	26 fingers	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 child	amod
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fingers	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 child	case
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thin	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 use	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 use	cc
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 use	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 use	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 use	advmod
32	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 catch	conj
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 use	obj
34	alone	alone	ADV	_	33 one	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	can	a shredder's blades	fingers and hair and ties and sleeves	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
2	have	present	many	a slot	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slot=Patient
3	not use	present · do-support	children	one	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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:17.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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