--- title: A girl in Sydney reaches into the washing-up for a spoon and finds a… — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Sydney reaches into the washing-up for a spoon and finds a sharp knife instead; since then, her family washes knives separately and puts them away at once. Who acts: girl, family. 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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 (girl, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:4 # text = A girl in Sydney reaches into the washing-up for a spoon and finds a sharp knife instead; since then, her family washes knives separately and puts them away at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 instead instead ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 21 since since ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 washes wash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 27 knives knife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 separately separately ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | present | a girl in Sydney | | | the washing up | | for a spoon | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into up=Path | | 2 | **find** | present | a girl in Sydney *not said here* | a sharp knife | | | | instead *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic | | 3 | **wash** | present | girl's family | knives | | | | separately *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient | | 4 | **put** | present | girl's family *not said here* | Plugs *= plug* | | | | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | 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:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:4`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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