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title: Never leave or reach for a knife hidden under soapy water, because n… — Knives, kitchen tools and cooking · tree and pragmatics
description: Never leave or reach for a knife hidden under soapy water, because nobody can see the blade. Who acts: you, nobody. 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 5

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Never leave or reach for a knife hidden under soapy water, because nobody can see the blade.

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**Who acts:** you, nobody · **What happens:** not leave, reach, hide, see · **To what, where:** knife, soapy water, blade

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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 (you, nobody), 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:5
# text = Never leave or reach for a knife hidden under soapy water, because nobody can see the blade.
# 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): no change
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a knife | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  | a knife *not said here* |  | soapy water |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location |
| 4 | **see** | can | nobody | the blade |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blade=Stimulus |

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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:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.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): no change. **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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