--- title: Sharp things are carried and passed safely: child scissors closed an… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics description: Sharp things are carried and passed safely: child scissors closed and pointing down, handle first; grown-ups' razors and box cutters are not for children, and a used needle found outside is never touched. Who acts: razors. 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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 (razors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:1 # text = Sharp things are carried and passed safely: child scissors closed and pointing down, handle first; grown-ups' razors and box cutters are not for children, and a used needle found outside is never touched. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 7 safely safely ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 handle handle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 razors razor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 cutters cutter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 35 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 found found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 outside outside ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present · passive | | Sharp things | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **pass** | participle | | | | | | safely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **close** | participle | | child scissors *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **point down** | gerund | | | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **handle** | infinitive | | | | | | first *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is** | present | grown ups's razors and box cutters | | | | | for children | tree rules | | 8 | **use** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **found** | participle | | a used needle *not said here* | | | | outside *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **not** **touch** | present · passive | | a used needle | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | 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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:1`. **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, 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. 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