--- title: Ask a grown-up before using a big knife, cut on a chopping board, cu… — Knives, kitchen tools and cooking · tree and pragmatics description: Ask a grown-up before using a big knife, cut on a chopping board, curl your fingers in and cut away from your body. Who acts: you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Knives, kitchen tools and cooking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/) / 4 # Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 4 Ask a grown-up before using a big knife, cut on a chopping board, curl your fingers in and cut away from your body. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, grow, use, cut, curl, cut away · **To what, where:** grown up, big knife, chopping board, fingers, body 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 (you), 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:4 # text = Ask a grown-up before using a big knife, cut on a chopping board, curl your fingers in and cut away from your body. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 13 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 chopping chopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 curl curl VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 21 in in ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | a grown up | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | a big knife | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient | | 4 | **cut** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | a chopping board | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **curl** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your fingers | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | | 6 | **cut away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | your body | | away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from body=Location | 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](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:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:4`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/3/) - next →: [Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/)