--- title: Sharp things are tools: scissors, needles and blades do their job be… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics description: Sharp things are tools: scissors, needles and blades do their job because they cut and poke, so the same edge that cuts paper can cut a finger or an eye. Who acts: Sharp things, scissors, things, same edge. 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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 (Sharp things, scissors, things, same edge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:0 # text = Sharp things are tools: scissors, needles and blades do their job because they cut and poke, so the same edge that cuts paper can cut a finger or an eye. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 poke poke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Sharp things | tools and blades | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | present | scissors and needles | scissors's job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 3 | **cut** | present | things *= thing* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **poke** | present | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cut** | present | the same edge | paper | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paper=Product | | 6 | **cut** | can | the same edge | a finger or a eye | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product | | 7 | **job** | | scissors | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Chores and broken things, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/23/) - next →: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/)