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title: Scissors cut away from your body and are carried with the points dow… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles · tree and pragmatics
description: Scissors cut away from your body and are carried with the points down; needles live in a pincushion and are counted back at the end. Who acts: Scissors, needles. A sentence of the lesson «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles, sentence 1

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Scissors cut away from your body and are carried with the points down; needles live in a pincushion and are counted back at the end.

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**Who acts:** Scissors, needles · **What happens:** cut away, carry, live, count back · **To what, where:** pincushion, end

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» 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 (Scissors, needles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.lesson:1
# text = Scissors cut away from your body and are carried with the points down; needles live in a pincushion and are counted back at the end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pincushion	pincushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut away** | present | Scissors |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **carry** | present · passive | Scissors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the points; down *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **live** | present | needles |  |  | a pincushion |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pincushion=Location |
| 4 | **count back** | present · passive | needles *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn matter-91 «NP V» |

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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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**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:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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