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title: Many kitchen cuts happen when people cut towards their hand or hold… — Knives, kitchen tools and cooking · tree and pragmatics
description: Many kitchen cuts happen when people cut towards their hand or hold food in their palm. Who acts: Many kitchen cuts, people. A sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 19

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Many kitchen cuts happen when people cut towards their hand or hold food in their palm.

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**Who acts:** Many kitchen cuts, people · **What happens:** happen, cut, hold · **To what, where:** hand, food, palm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday 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 (Many kitchen cuts, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:19
# text = Many kitchen cuts happen when people cut towards their hand or hold food in their palm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Many kitchen cuts |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | present | people |  |  | people's hand |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hand=Location |
| 3 | **hold** | present | people *not said here* | food |  | people's palm |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in palm=Location |

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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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**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): R8-pos-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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