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title: Broken glass splits into thin, sharp edges, so it is swept up carefu… — Glass and pottery · tree and pragmatics
description: Broken glass splits into thin, sharp edges, so it is swept up carefully with a brush and dustpan, never picked up with bare hands. Who acts: Broken glass. A sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Glass and pottery, sentence 13

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Broken glass splits into thin, sharp edges, so it is swept up carefully with a brush and dustpan, never picked up with bare hands.

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**Who acts:** Broken glass · **What happens:** split, sweep up, not pick up · **To what, where:** thin sharp edges, glass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» of the chemistry 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 (Broken glass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:030-glass-and-pottery.lesson:13
# text = Broken glass splits into thin, sharp edges, so it is swept up carefully with a brush and dustpan, never picked up with bare hands.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 030-glass-and-pottery.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	dustpan	dustpan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | present | Broken glass |  |  |  |  | into thin sharp edges *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into edge=Result |
| 2 | **sweep up** | present · passive |  | glass |  |  |  | with a brush and dustpan; carefully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **pick up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with bare hands | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:030-glass-and-pottery.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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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