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title: Running with scissors or a craft knife can turn a small trip into a… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles · tree and pragmatics
description: Running with scissors or a craft knife can turn a small trip into a deep stab wound. Who acts: Running. 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 clause.
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# Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles, sentence 19

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Running with scissors or a craft knife can turn a small trip into a deep stab wound.

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**Who acts:** Running · **What happens:** run, turn · **To what, where:** small trip, deep stab wound

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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 (Running), 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:19
# text = Running with scissors or a craft knife can turn a small trip into a deep stab wound.
# 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
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	stab	stab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with scissors or a craft knife | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with scissors=Material |
| 2 | **turn** | can | Running | a small trip |  | a deep stab wound |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent trip=Theme into wound=Trajectory |

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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:19`.

**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. **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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