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title: A needle or pin found on the floor should be put in a pincushion or… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: A needle or pin found on the floor should be put in a pincushion or given to a grown-up. 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 6

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A needle or pin found on the floor should be put in a pincushion or given to a grown-up.

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**What happens:** find, put, give · **To what, where:** needle, floor, pincushion, up, grown

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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:6
# text = A needle or pin found on the floor should be put in a pincushion or given to a grown-up.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pincushion	pincushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
19	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **find** | participle |  | a needle or pin *not said here* |  | the floor |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | should · passive |  | a needle or pin |  | a pincushion |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pincushion=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | a up | grown |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to grow=Recipient |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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