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title: Pot and pan handles should be turned inward so nobody can knock or g… — Safe in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Pot and pan handles should be turned inward so nobody can knock or grab them. Who acts: nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe in the kitchen, sentence 10

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Pot and pan handles should be turned inward so nobody can knock or grab them.

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**Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** turn, knock, grab · **To what, where:** Pot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» 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 (nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:031-kitchen-safety.lesson:10
# text = Pot and pan handles should be turned inward so nobody can knock or grab them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 031-kitchen-safety.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	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	handles	handle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	inward	inward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **turn** | should · passive |  | Pot and pan handles |  |  |  | inward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | can | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grab** | infinitive | nobody *not said here* | Pot |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:031-kitchen-safety.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): 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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