--- title: A splinter is pulled out with clean tweezers at the same angle it we… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics description: A splinter is pulled out with clean tweezers at the same angle it went in; digging with a needle can push it deeper, and a deep one, for example under a nail, may need a nurse. Who acts: splinter, digging, deep one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splinter, digging, deep one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:11 # text = A splinter is pulled out with clean tweezers at the same angle it went in; digging with a needle can push it deeper, and a deep one, for example under a nail, may need a nurse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tweezers tweezer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 angle angle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 in in ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 digging dig VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 deeper deep ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 25 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 33 under under ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull out** | present · passive | | a splinter | | the same angle | | with clean tweezers | tree rules | | 2 | **go in** | past | splinter | the same angle *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location angle=Theme | | 3 | **dig** | gerund | | | | | | with a needle | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with needle=Instrument | | 4 | **push** | can | digging | splinter | | | | deep *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **need** | may | a deep one | a nurse | | | | for example under a nail | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nurse=Theme | 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. **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:medicine:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/10/) - next →: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/)