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title: Do not play with knives or broken glass, and tell an adult about bro… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not play with knives or broken glass, and tell an adult about broken glass, because they cut deeply. Who acts: you, knives. A sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Doctors, cuts and grazes, sentence 13

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Do not play with knives or broken glass, and tell an adult about broken glass, because they cut deeply.

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**Who acts:** you, knives · **What happens:** not play, break, tell, cut · **To what, where:** adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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:083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.lesson:13
# text = Do not play with knives or broken glass, and tell an adult about broken glass, because they cut deeply.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **not** **play** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with knives or broken glass | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with knife=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  | about broken glass | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about glass=Topic |
| 4 | **cut** | present | knives *= knife* |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.lesson:13`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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