--- title: Never run, push or play on stairs: going fast means a missed step tu… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics description: Never run, push or play on stairs: going fast means a missed step turns into a tumble down many steps. Who acts: you, going, missed step. 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 cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Going up and down stairs safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/) / 2 # Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 2 Never run, push or play on stairs: going fast means a missed step turns into a tumble down many steps. **Who acts:** you, going, missed step · **What happens:** not run, push, play, go, mean, miss · **To what, where:** stairs, tumble · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, going, missed step), 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:2 # text = Never run, push or play on stairs: going fast means a missed step turns into a tumble down many steps. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 push push VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 play play VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=4:conj 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 11 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 missed miss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tumble tumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 down down ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **run** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **push** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | stairs | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | going | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **miss** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **turn** | present | a missed step | | | a tumble down many steps | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tumble=Trajectory | 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. **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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Going up and down stairs safely, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/1/) - next →: [Going up and down stairs safely, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/)