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title: Older people who fall on stairs can break a hip, which can take mont… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Older people who fall on stairs can break a hip, which can take months to heal. Who acts: Older people, hip. 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 18

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Older people who fall on stairs can break a hip, which can take months to heal.

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**Who acts:** Older people, hip · **What happens:** fall, break, take, heal · **To what, where:** stairs, hip

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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 (Older people, hip), 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:18
# text = Older people who fall on stairs can break a hip, which can take months to heal.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **fall** | present | Older people |  |  | stairs |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stair=Location |
| 2 | **break** | can | Older people | a hip |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | can | a hip |  |  |  | month |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **heal** | to-infinitive | a hip *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:18`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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