--- title: Never touch a needle or syringe you find; mark the spot and tell a g… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics description: Never touch a needle or syringe you find; mark the spot and tell a grown-up, because needles can carry blood-borne diseases. Who acts: you, needles. 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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 (you, needles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:13 # text = Never touch a needle or syringe you find; mark the spot and tell a grown-up, because needles can carry blood-borne diseases. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 238-bites-and-things-you-find.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 syringe syringe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 mark mark VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 16 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 24 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 borne borne VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a needle or syringe | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme needle=Co-Theme | | 2 | **find** | present | you | a needle or syringe *not said here* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Topic | | 3 | **mark** | infinitive | | the spot | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent spot=Destination | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a grown up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | can | needles | borne diseases | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme | | 7 | **borne** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:13`. **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 ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bites, stings and things you find on t…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/12/) - next →: [Bites, stings and things you find on t…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/)