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title: Scissors are carried closed and pointing down and passed handle first. — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: Scissors are carried closed and pointing down and passed handle first. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 5

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Scissors are carried closed and pointing down and passed handle first.

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**What happens:** carry, close, point down, pass · **To what, where:** Scissors, handle

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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: 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:5
# text = Scissors are carried closed and pointing down and passed handle first.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **carry** | present · passive |  | Scissors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **point down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  | handle |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme handle=Trajectory |

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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:5`.

**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, 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/).

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