--- title: When you carry something, carry it so you can still see your feet an… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics description: When you carry something, carry it so you can still see your feet and the steps, and keep one hand free for the rail; make two small trips instead of one big one. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:3 # text = When you carry something, carry it so you can still see your feet and the steps, and keep one hand free for the rail; make two small trips instead of one big one. # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 carry carry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 so so SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 still still ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 30 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 trips trip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | you | something | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | step | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **see** | can | you | your feet and the steps | | | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one hand | | | | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | two small trips | | | | instead one big one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product | 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:3`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Going up and down stairs safely, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/2/) - next →: [Going up and down stairs safely, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/)