--- title: Use child scissors, carry them closed and pointing down, and pass th… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics description: Use child scissors, carry them closed and pointing down, and pass them handle first. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/10/) [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/) / [Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/) / 10 # Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 10 Use child scissors, carry them closed and pointing down, and pass them handle first. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** use, carry, close, point down, pass · **To what, where:** child scissors, scissors This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:10 # text = Use child scissors, carry them closed and pointing down, and pass them handle first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 carry carry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 down down ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 pass pass VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | child scissors | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Patient | | 2 | **carry** | infinitive | you *not said here* | scissors | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **close** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **point down** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pass** | infinitive | you *not said here* | scissors | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | 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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:10`. **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 ×3, 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. 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