--- title: A used needle or syringe found outside is never touched, because it… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics description: A used needle or syringe found outside is never touched, because it can carry dangerous infections; you tell a grown-up. Who acts: needle, you. 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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 (needle, you), 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:10 # text = A used needle or syringe found outside is never touched, because it can carry dangerous infections; you tell a grown-up. # 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): 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 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 syringe syringe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 outside outside ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 16 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 infections infection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **use** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | participle | | a used needle or syringe *not said here* | | | | outside *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **touch** | present · passive | | a used needle or syringe | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 4 | **carry** | can | needle | dangerous infections | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | a grown up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | 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: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): 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. 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