--- title: A blender spins sharp blades thousands of times a minute; it only wo… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics description: A blender spins sharp blades thousands of times a minute; it only works with its lid locked on, and an adult unplugs it before cleaning. Who acts: blender, adult. 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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 (blender, adult), 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:5 # text = A blender spins sharp blades thousands of times a minute; it only works with its lid locked on, and an adult unplugs it before cleaning. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 blender blender NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl 19 on on ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 unplugs unplug VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 27 cleaning clean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **spin** | present | a blender | sharp blades | | | | thousands of times a minute *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blade=Theme | | 2 | **work** | present | blender | | | | | with blender's lid | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lid=Co-Agent | | 3 | **lock on** | participle | blender *not said here* | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **unplug** | present | a adult | blender | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **clean** | gerund | a adult *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Kitchen and garden dangers, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/4/) - next →: [Kitchen and garden dangers, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/)