--- title: A sharp knife cuts by putting all your push onto a tiny edge; a blun… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics description: A sharp knife cuts by putting all your push onto a tiny edge; a blunt knife is more dangerous because it slips, and nobody tries to catch a falling knife. Who acts: sharp knife, blunt knife, knife, nobody. 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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 (sharp knife, blunt knife, knife, nobody), 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:7 # text = A sharp knife cuts by putting all your push onto a tiny edge; a blunt knife is more dangerous because it slips, and nobody tries to catch a falling knife. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 onto onto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 slips slip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 nsubj _ _ 27 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **cut** | present | a sharp knife | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **put** | gerund | a sharp knife *not said here* | your push | | a tiny edge | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent push=Goal | | 3 | **is** | present | a blunt knife | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **slip** | present | knife | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **try** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | a falling knife | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | | 7 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **push** | | your | | | | | | nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/6/) - next →: [Kitchen and garden dangers, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/)