--- title: A boy in Ohio ran down the stairs in his socks carrying a laundry ba… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio ran down the stairs in his socks carrying a laundry basket he could not see over; he slipped on the third step from the top, fell to the bottom and broke his arm. 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:5 # text = A boy in Ohio ran down the stairs in his socks carrying a laundry basket he could not see over; he slipped on the third step from the top, fell to the bottom and broke his arm. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 down down ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 laundry laundry NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 over over ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 amod _ _ 27 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run down** | past | a boy in Ohio | the stairs | | boy's socks | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stair=Theme in sock=Trajectory | | 2 | **carry** | gerund | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | a laundry basket | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | | 3 | **not** **see over** | could | boy | a laundry basket *not said here* | | | | over *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus | | 4 | **slip** | past | boy | | | | | on the third step from the top | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **fall** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | to the bottom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=Theme | | 6 | **break** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's arm | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient | 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:5`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/4/) - next →: [Going up and down stairs safely, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/)