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title: Knitting and sewing needles are kept in a pincushion and counted bac… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles · tree and pragmatics
description: Knitting and sewing needles are kept in a pincushion and counted back, so none are left to prick people or pets. Who acts: none. A sentence of the lesson «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles, sentence 15

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Knitting and sewing needles are kept in a pincushion and counted back, so none are left to prick people or pets.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** keep, count back, leave, prick · **To what, where:** Knitting needles, pincushion, none, people

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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 (none), 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:15
# text = Knitting and sewing needles are kept in a pincushion and counted back, so none are left to prick people or pets.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Knitting	knitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sewing	sewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
4	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pincushion	pincushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	prick	prick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Knitting needles |  | a pincushion |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pincushion=Location |
| 2 | **count back** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | present · passive |  | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prick** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | people or pets |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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