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title: A boy in Leeds left scissors on the floor; his baby sister crawled o… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds left scissors on the floor; his baby sister crawled over and put them in her mouth and cut her lip. Who acts: boy, baby sister. A sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 19

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A boy in Leeds left scissors on the floor; his baby sister crawled over and put them in her mouth and cut her lip.

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**Who acts:** boy, baby sister · **What happens:** leave, crawl over, put, cut · **To what, where:** scissors, floor, mouth, lip

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (boy, baby sister), 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:19
# text = A boy in Leeds left scissors on the floor; his baby sister crawled over and put them in her mouth and cut her lip.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | a boy in Leeds | scissors |  | the floor |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme on floor=Location |
| 2 | **crawl over** | past | boy's baby sister |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | boy's baby sister *not said here* | scissors |  | sister's mouth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 4 | **cut** | past | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | sister's lip |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lip=Product |

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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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:19`.

**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/).

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