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title: Running, pushing or playing games on stairs is dangerous. — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Running, pushing or playing games on stairs is dangerous. Who acts: Running. 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 13

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Running, pushing or playing games on stairs is dangerous.

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**Who acts:** Running · **What happens:** run, push, play, be · **To what, where:** games, 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 (Running), 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:13
# text = Running, pushing or playing games on stairs is dangerous.
# 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	Running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **play** | gerund |  | games |  | stairs |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Running |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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.

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