--- title: A needle can carry blood diseases, a bottle may hold a chemical, a f… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics description: A needle can carry blood diseases, a bottle may hold a chemical, a firework or flare may still explode, and a rusty nail can cause tetanus if it cuts you. Who acts: needle, bottle, firework, rusty nail. 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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, bottle, firework, rusty nail), 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:4 # text = A needle can carry blood diseases, a bottle may hold a chemical, a firework or flare may still explode, and a rusty nail can cause tetanus if it cuts you. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 firework firework NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 flare flare NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 explode explode VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 rusty rusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 29 tetanus tetanus NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | can | a needle | blood diseases | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | may | a bottle | a chemical | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme | | 3 | **explode** | may | a firework or flare | | | | still | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cause** | can | a rusty nail | tetanus | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tetanus=Patient | | 5 | **cut** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nail | you | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/3/) - next →: [Bites, stings and things you find on t…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/)