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title: If someone falls and a bone may be broken (it hurts a lot or looks a… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone falls and a bone may be broken (it hurts a lot or looks a strange shape), keep them still and get an adult at once; never try to pull it straight yourself. Who acts: someone, bone, you. A sentence of the lesson «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
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# Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 19

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If someone falls and a bone may be broken (it hurts a lot or looks a strange shape), keep them still and get an adult at once; never try to pull it straight yourself.

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**Who acts:** someone, bone, you · **What happens:** fall, break, hurt, look, keep, get · **To what, where:** bone, lot, strange shape, people, adult

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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 (someone, bone, you), 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:19
# text = If someone falls and a bone may be broken (it hurts a lot or looks a strange shape), keep them still and get an adult at once; never try to pull it straight yourself.
# 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 ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | may · passive |  | a bone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | bone | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | present | bone *not said here* | a strange shape |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shape=Attribute |
| 5 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | people |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent adult=Theme at once=Asset |
| 7 | **not** **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **pull** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | adult |  |  |  | yourself *obl*; straight *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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 ×3. **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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