--- title: For example, a boy in Denver carrying a tall laundry basket downstai… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a boy in Denver carrying a tall laundry basket downstairs cannot see the steps, so he takes half the clothes first and holds the rail with his free hand. Who acts: boy. 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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 (boy), 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:4 # text = For example, a boy in Denver carrying a tall laundry basket downstairs cannot see the steps, so he takes half the clothes first and holds the rail with his free hand. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Denver Denver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 laundry laundry NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 downstairs downstairs ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 22 obj _ _ 26 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | gerund | a boy in Denver *not said here* | a tall laundry basket | | | | downstairs *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | | 2 | **not** **see** | can | a boy in Denver | the steps | | | | for example | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus | | 3 | **take** | present | boy | half clothes | | | | first *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | | 4 | **hold** | present | boy *not said here* | the rail | | | | with boy's free hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme | 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:4`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/3/) - next →: [Going up and down stairs safely, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/)