Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 5

A blender spins sharp blades thousands of times a minute; it only works with its lid locked on, and an adult unplugs it before cleaning.

Who acts: blender, adult · What happens: spin, work, lock on, unplug, clean · To what, where: sharp blades, blender

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 (blender, adult), 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 blender	det
2	blender	blender	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spins	nsubj
3	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blades	amod
5	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spins	obj
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spins	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 times	case
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minute	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod:unmarked
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 works	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 works	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 works	advmod
14	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spins	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 lid	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lid	nmod:poss
17	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 works	obl
18	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 works	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 locked	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unplugs	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 unplugs	cc
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 adult	det
23	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 unplugs	nsubj
24	unplugs	unplug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 works	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 unplugs	obj
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 cleaning	mark
27	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 unplugs	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spins	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spin	present	a blender	sharp blades	thousands of times a minute obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blade=Theme
2	work	present	blender		with blender's lid	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lid=Co-Agent
3	lock on	participle	blender not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	unplug	present	a adult	blender		tree rules
5	clean	gerund	a adult not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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