--- title: Hold the handrail, take one step at a time and put your whole foot o… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics description: Hold the handrail, take one step at a time and put your whole foot on each step; the rail gives you something to grab if you trip. Who acts: you, rail. 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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 (you, rail), 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:1 # text = Hold the handrail, take one step at a time and put your whole foot on each step; the rail gives you something to grab if you trip. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 handrail handrail NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 trip trip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the handrail | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handrail=Theme | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one step | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your whole foot | | | | on each step | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on step=Destination | | 4 | **give** | present | the rail | something | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | | 5 | **grab** | to-infinitive | the rail *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **trip** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:everyday:001-stairs.lesson:1`. **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): 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: [Going up and down stairs safely, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/0/) - next →: [Going up and down stairs safely, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/)