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title: Do not pick up a sharp rusty nail with bare hands; tell a grown-up,… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not pick up a sharp rusty nail with bare hands; tell a grown-up, and tell them if it cut you, because rusty cuts can cause tetanus (also called lockjaw, an illness that makes the muscles go stiff; a doctor can stop it). Who acts: you, grown, rusty cuts, tetanus. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, s
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 16

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Do not pick up a sharp rusty nail with bare hands; tell a grown-up, and tell them if it cut you, because rusty cuts can cause tetanus (also called lockjaw, an illness that makes the muscles go stiff; a doctor can stop it).

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**Who acts:** you, grown, rusty cuts, tetanus, illness, muscles · **What happens:** not pick up, tell, cut, cause, call, make · **To what, where:** sharp rusty nail, grown, hands, you, tetanus, lockjaw · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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, grown, rusty cuts, tetanus), 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:16
# text = Do not pick up a sharp rusty nail with bare hands; tell a grown-up, and tell them if it cut you, because rusty cuts can cause tetanus (also called lockjaw, an illness that makes the muscles go stiff; a doctor can stop it).
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
15	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
32	tetanus	tetanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	lockjaw	lockjaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
45	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pick up** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | a sharp rusty nail |  |  |  | with bare hands | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **cut** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | grown *= grow* | you |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
| 5 | **cause** | can | rusty cuts | tetanus |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tetanus=Patient |
| 6 | **call** | participle | tetanus *not said here* | lockjaw |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** | present | a illness | the muscles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive | the muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stiff *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **stop** | can | a doctor | tetanus |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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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**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, R7-rel-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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