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title: Ask a grown-up for help with sharp knives, because they can cut you… — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask a grown-up for help with sharp knives, because they can cut you badly. Who acts: you, knives. A sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed, sentence 8

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Ask a grown-up for help with sharp knives, because they can cut you badly.

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**Who acts:** you, knives · **What happens:** ask, cut · **To what, where:** grown, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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, knives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:8
# text = Ask a grown-up for help with sharp knives, because they can cut you badly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.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	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	reparandum	_	_
3	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	flat	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:iobj
17	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  | for help with sharp knives | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 2 | **cut** | can | knives *= knife* | you |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:8`.

**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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