--- title: Blind cords should be tied up high or wound on a cleat (a small hook… — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics description: Blind cords should be tied up high or wound on a cleat (a small hook fixed high on the wall), because a young child can get one around the neck and strangle. Who acts: young child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.lesson:6 # text = Blind cords should be tied up high or wound on a cleat (a small hook fixed high on the wall), because a young child can get one around the neck and strangle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.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 ×2 1 Blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cords cord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wound wind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cleat cleat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 17 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obj _ _ 31 around around ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 strangle strangle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tie up** | should · passive | | Blind cords | | | | high *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **wind** | participle | | | | a cleat | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on cleat=Trajectory | | 3 | **fix** | participle | | a small hook *not said here* | | the wall | | high *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **get** | can | a young child | one | | the neck | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 5 | **strangle** | infinitive | a young child *not said here* | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. 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