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title: Razors, craft knives and box cutters are for grown-ups only, because… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: Razors, craft knives and box cutters are for grown-ups only, because their blades are very sharp and slip easily. Who acts: blades. 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 ev
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# Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 7

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Razors, craft knives and box cutters are for grown-ups only, because their blades are very sharp and slip easily.

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**Who acts:** blades · **What happens:** grow, be, slip

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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 (blades), 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:7
# text = Razors, craft knives and box cutters are for grown-ups only, because their blades are very sharp and slip easily.
# 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): no change
1	Razors	razor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cutters	cutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for grown ups | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | cutters's blades |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **slip** | present | cutters's blades *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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