--- title: A blunt knife is not safer: it needs more force, so when it slips it… — Knives, kitchen tools and cooking · tree and pragmatics description: A blunt knife is not safer: it needs more force, so when it slips it cuts you. Who acts: blunt knife, knife. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 6 A blunt knife is not safer: it needs more force, so when it slips it cuts you. **Who acts:** blunt knife, knife · **What happens:** not be, need, slip, cut · **To what, where:** more force, you 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 (blunt knife, knife), 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:6 # text = A blunt knife is not safer: it needs more force, so when it slips it cuts you. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 13 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 slips slip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **not** **is** | present | a blunt knife | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | knife | more force | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme | | 3 | **slip** | present | knife | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **cut** | present | knife | you | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product | 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:6`. **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, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/5/) - next →: [Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/)