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title: A teenager in Wales cut a bagel while holding it in her palm; the kn… — Safe in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: A teenager in Wales cut a bagel while holding it in her palm; the knife slipped straight into her hand and she needed stitches. Who acts: teenager, knife. 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 eve
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# Safe in the kitchen, sentence 9

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A teenager in Wales cut a bagel while holding it in her palm; the knife slipped straight into her hand and she needed stitches.

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**Who acts:** teenager, knife · **What happens:** cut, hold, slip, need · **To what, where:** bagel, palm, hand, stitches

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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 (teenager, knife), 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:9
# text = A teenager in Wales cut a bagel while holding it in her palm; the knife slipped straight into her hand and she needed stitches.
# 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	teenager	teenager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bagel	bagel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **cut** | past | a teenager in Wales | a bagel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bagel=Product |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | a teenager in Wales *not said here* | bagel |  | teenager's palm |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in palm=Location |
| 3 | **slip** | past | the knife |  |  | teenager's hand |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **need** | past | teenager | stitches |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:9`.

**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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