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title: Stairs are one of the places where people at home and at school fall… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Stairs are one of the places where people at home and at school fall most often, so it pays to use them carefully. Who acts: Stairs, people, school. A sentence of the lesson «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 0

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Stairs are one of the places where people at home and at school fall most often, so it pays to use them carefully.

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**Who acts:** Stairs, people, school · **What happens:** be, fall, pay, use · **To what, where:** one, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday 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 (Stairs, people, school), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:001-stairs.lesson:0
# text = Stairs are one of the places where people at home and at school fall most often, so it pays to use them carefully.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 001-stairs.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	Stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | Stairs | one |  |  |  | of the places | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | people at home and school |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | present | school |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | school *not said here* | people |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:everyday:001-stairs.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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