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title: Most kitchen cuts happen when a knife slips towards the hand holding… — Safe in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Most kitchen cuts happen when a knife slips towards the hand holding the food. Who acts: Most kitchen cuts, knife, hand. 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 23

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Most kitchen cuts happen when a knife slips towards the hand holding the food.

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**Who acts:** Most kitchen cuts, knife, hand · **What happens:** happen, slip, hold · **To what, where:** food

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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 (Most kitchen cuts, knife, hand), 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:23
# text = Most kitchen cuts happen when a knife slips towards the hand holding the food.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **happen** | present | Most kitchen cuts |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slip** | present | a knife |  |  |  |  | towards the hand | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | the hand *not said here* | the food |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:23`.

**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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