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title: Glass is picked up with a dustpan and brush and a damp paper towel f… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics
description: Glass is picked up with a dustpan and brush and a damp paper towel for tiny pieces, never bare fingers, and wrapped in paper before the bin. A sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Chores and broken things, sentence 15

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Glass is picked up with a dustpan and brush and a damp paper towel for tiny pieces, never bare fingers, and wrapped in paper before the bin.

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**What happens:** pick up, wrap · **To what, where:** Glass, paper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:15
# text = Glass is picked up with a dustpan and brush and a damp paper towel for tiny pieces, never bare fingers, and wrapped in paper before the bin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 111-chores-and-broken-things.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	Glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dustpan	dustpan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **pick up** | present · passive |  | Glass |  |  |  | with a dustpan and brush and a damp paper towel for tiny pieces | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle |  |  |  | paper | before the bin |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in paper=Destination |

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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:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:15`.

**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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