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title: Carry scissors closed with the points down, and pass them handle fir… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics
description: Carry scissors closed with the points down, and pass them handle first. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 7

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Carry scissors closed with the points down, and pass them handle first.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** carry, close, pass, handle · **To what, where:** scissors

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 (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:7
# text = Carry scissors closed with the points down, and pass them handle first.
# 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): no change
1	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | scissors |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  | scissors *not said here* |  |  |  | with the points; down *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with point=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive | you *not said here* | scissors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **handle** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:7`.

**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): no change. **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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