--- title: If a little child grabs something sharp, do not snatch it by the bla… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics description: If a little child grabs something sharp, do not snatch it by the blade; calmly swap it for a toy and get an adult. Who acts: little child, you. 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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 (little child, you), 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:21 # text = If a little child grabs something sharp, do not snatch it by the blade; calmly swap it for a toy and get an adult. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 snatch snatch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod 18 swap swap VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a little child | something | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **not** **snatch** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | lip | | | | by the blade | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **swap** | infinitive | | lip | | | | for a toy; calmly *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for toy=Co-Theme | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | | a adult | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus | 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:21`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/20/) - next →: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/)