--- title: A needle prick from a used needle can pass on serious illnesses, so… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics description: A needle prick from a used needle can pass on serious illnesses, so needles are only picked up by trained adults. Who acts: needle prick, trained adults. 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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 prick, trained adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:24 # text = A needle prick from a used needle can pass on serious illnesses, so needles are only picked up by trained adults. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 prick prick NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:agent _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **pass on** | can | a needle prick from a used needle | serious illnesses | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pick up** | present · passive | trained adults | needles | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | | 4 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:24`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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: [Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/23/) - next →: [Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/)