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title: A used needle found outside must never be touched, because it can ca… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: A used needle found outside must never be touched, because it can carry dangerous infections. Who acts: pin. 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 9

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A used needle found outside must never be touched, because it can carry dangerous infections.

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**Who acts:** pin · **What happens:** use, find, not touch, carry · **To what, where:** used needle, dangerous infections

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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 (pin), 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:9
# text = A used needle found outside must never be touched, because it can carry dangerous infections.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
15	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	infections	infection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | a used needle *not said here* |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **touch** | must · passive |  | a used needle |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | can | pin | dangerous infections |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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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