Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 7
A sharp knife cuts by putting all your push onto a tiny edge; a blunt knife is more dangerous because it slips, and nobody tries to catch a falling knife.
Who acts: sharp knife, blunt knife, knife, nobody, your · What happens: cut, put, be, slip, try, catch · To what, where: push, tiny edge, falling knife
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 (sharp knife, blunt knife, knife, nobody), 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 | 3 knife | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knife | amod |
| 3 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | nsubj |
| 4 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 putting | mark |
| 6 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 cuts | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 push | det:predet |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 push | nmod:poss |
| 9 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obj |
| 10 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 13 edge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 edge | det |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 edge | amod |
| 13 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 cuts | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 knife | det |
| 16 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knife | amod |
| 17 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dangerous | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dangerous | cop |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 dangerous | advmod |
| 20 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cuts | parataxis |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 slips | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slips | nsubj |
| 23 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dangerous | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tries | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tries | cc |
| 26 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 tries | nsubj |
| 27 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dangerous | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 catch | mark |
| 29 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 tries | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 knife | det |
| 31 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 knife | amod |
| 32 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 catch | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | a sharp knife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | put | gerund | a sharp knife not said here | your push | a tiny edge | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent push=Goal | |||
| 3 | is | present | a blunt knife | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slip | present | knife | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | try | present | nobody | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | a falling knife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | push | your | nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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