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title: Staples and drawing pins on the floor should be picked up, because b… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: Staples and drawing pins on the floor should be picked up, because bare feet and paws step on them. Who acts: bare feet. 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 8

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Staples and drawing pins on the floor should be picked up, because bare feet and paws step on them.

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**Who acts:** bare feet · **What happens:** draw, pick up, step · **To what, where:** Staples

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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 (bare feet), 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:8
# text = Staples and drawing pins on the floor should be picked up, because bare feet and paws step on them.
# 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	Staples	staple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **draw** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pick up** | should · passive |  | Staples and drawing pins on the floor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **step** | present | bare feet and paws |  |  |  |  | on Staples *= staple* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=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:8`.

**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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