--- title: A strimmer's nylon string spins so fast it cuts like a blade and thr… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics description: A strimmer's nylon string spins so fast it cuts like a blade and throws stones and bits, which is why gardeners wear goggles and everyone else stays well away. Who acts: nylon string, string, everyone. 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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 (nylon string, string, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.lesson:14 # text = A strimmer's nylon string spins so fast it cuts like a blade and throws stones and bits, which is why gardeners wear goggles and everyone else stays well away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 strimmer strimmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 nylon nylon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 goggles goggle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ _ 28 else else ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | a strimmer's nylon string | | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | present | string | | | | | like a blade | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **throw** | present | string *not said here* | stones and bits | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | wear *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stay** | present | everyone | | | | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.lesson:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Kitchen and garden dangers, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/13/) - next →: [Kitchen and garden dangers, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/)