--- title: Ask an adult to take out a splinter with clean tweezers, because a s… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics description: Ask an adult to take out a splinter with clean tweezers, because a splinter left in can get infected. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Building and making things safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/) / 18 # Building and making things safely, sentence 18 Ask an adult to take out a splinter with clean tweezers, because a splinter left in can get infected. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, take out, leave in, get · **To what, where:** adult, splinter This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» 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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:18 # text = Ask an adult to take out a splinter with clean tweezers, because a splinter left in can get infected. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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 ×3 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 tweezers tweezer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:mark 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 16 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 in in ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:aux 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 20 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **take out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a splinter | | | | with clean tweezers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Theme | | 3 | **leave in** | participle | | a splinter *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | infected *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:18`. **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 ×3. **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: [Building and making things safely, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/17/) - next →: [Building and making things safely, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/)