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title: Toys, shoes and bags left on stairs are easy to trip over. — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Toys, shoes and bags left on stairs are easy to trip over. Who acts: Toys. 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 of every clause.
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# Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 11

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Toys, shoes and bags left on stairs are easy to trip over.

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**Who acts:** Toys · **What happens:** leave, be, trip over · **To what, where:** Toys, stairs

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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 (Toys), 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:11
# text = Toys, shoes and bags left on stairs are easy to trip over.
# 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	Toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	trip	trip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **leave** | participle |  | Toys and shoes and bags *not said here* |  | stairs |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Toys and shoes and bags |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trip over** | to-infinitive | Toys and shoes and bags *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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/).

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