--- title: Do not use a knife to lever open a lid; ask for help, because the kn… — Knives, kitchen tools and cooking · tree and pragmatics description: Do not use a knife to lever open a lid; ask for help, because the knife can snap or slip. Who acts: you, 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 9 Do not use a knife to lever open a lid; ask for help, because the knife can snap or slip. **Who acts:** you, knife · **What happens:** not use, lever, open, ask, snap, slip · **To what, where:** knife, lid 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, 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:9 # text = Do not use a knife to lever open a lid; ask for help, because the knife can snap or slip. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 lever lever VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 snap snap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **use** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | a knife | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient | | 2 | **lever** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a lid | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **snap** | can | the knife | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **slip** | infinitive | the knife *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:9`. **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): 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/8/) - next →: [Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/)