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title: A shredder's blades can catch fingers, hair, ties and sleeves; many… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics
description: A shredder's blades can catch fingers, hair, ties and sleeves; many have a slot too thin for a small child's fingers, and children do not use one alone. Who acts: blades, many, children. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 17

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A shredder's blades can catch fingers, hair, ties and sleeves; many have a slot too thin for a small child's fingers, and children do not use one alone.

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**Who acts:** blades, many, children · **What happens:** catch, have, not use · **To what, where:** fingers, slot, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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 (blades, many, children), 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:17
# text = A shredder's blades can catch fingers, hair, ties and sleeves; many have a slot too thin for a small child's fingers, and children do not use one alone.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	shredder	shredder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	slot	slot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obj	_	_
34	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **catch** | can | a shredder's blades | fingers and hair and ties and sleeves |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | many | a slot |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slot=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **use** | present · do-support | children | one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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:technology:015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.lesson:17`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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