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title: A sharp knife hidden under soapy bubbles is a trap: the next person… — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plug… · tree and pragmatics
description: A sharp knife hidden under soapy bubbles is a trap: the next person to reach into the water cannot see the blade and gets cut. Who acts: sharp knife, next person. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sc
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# Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies, sentence 2

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A sharp knife hidden under soapy bubbles is a trap: the next person to reach into the water cannot see the blade and gets cut.

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**Who acts:** sharp knife, next person · **What happens:** hide, be, reach, not see, cut · **To what, where:** sharp knife, soapy bubbles, trap, water, blade

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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 (sharp knife, next person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:2
# text = A sharp knife hidden under soapy bubbles is a trap: the next person to reach into the water cannot see the blade and gets cut.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **hide** | participle |  | a sharp knife *not said here* |  | soapy bubbles |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bubble=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a sharp knife | a trap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the next person *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into water=Path |
| 4 | **not** **see** | can | the next person | the blade |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blade=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cut** | present · passive | the next person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:2`.

**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): no change. **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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