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title: Socks on smooth wooden stairs can slip; shoes or bare feet grip bett… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Socks on smooth wooden stairs can slip; shoes or bare feet grip better. Who acts: Socks, shoes. 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 12

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Socks on smooth wooden stairs can slip; shoes or bare feet grip better.

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**Who acts:** Socks, shoes · **What happens:** slip, grip

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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 (Socks, shoes), 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:12
# text = Socks on smooth wooden stairs can slip; shoes or bare feet grip better.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	grip	grip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | can | Socks on smooth wooden stairs |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **grip** | present | shoes or bare feet |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:12`.

**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): R6-punct-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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