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title: A knife should be used only with an adult's permission, on a cutting… — Safe in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: A knife should be used only with an adult's permission, on a cutting board, cutting away from your fingers. Who acts: adult. 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 12

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A knife should be used only with an adult's permission, on a cutting board, cutting away from your fingers.

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**Who acts:** adult · **What happens:** use, cut away, permit · **To what, where:** knife, cutting board

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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 (adult), 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:12
# text = A knife should be used only with an adult's permission, on a cutting board, cutting away from your fingers.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	cutting	cutting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **use** | should · passive |  | a knife |  | a cutting board |  | with a adult's permission | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **cut away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **permit** |  | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:12`.

**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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