--- title: A splinter should be removed by a grown-up with clean tweezers, beca… — Home myths, first aid and weather warnings · tree and pragmatics description: A splinter should be removed by a grown-up with clean tweezers, because dirty splinters get infected. Who acts: dirty splinters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dirty splinters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:10 # text = A splinter should be removed by a grown-up with clean tweezers, because dirty splinters get infected. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 8 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 obl:agent _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tweezers tweezer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 splinters splinter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 19 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | should · passive | | a splinter | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | dirty splinters | | | | | infected *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:10`. **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): R4-particle ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/8/) - next →: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/)