--- title: A little girl's family left a toy car on the stairs; her grandad ste… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics description: A little girl's family left a toy car on the stairs; her grandad stepped on it in the dark, fell and hurt his hip so badly he spent weeks in hospital. Who acts: family, grandad. A sentence of the lesson «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/6/) [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/) / 6 # Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 6 A little girl's family left a toy car on the stairs; her grandad stepped on it in the dark, fell and hurt his hip so badly he spent weeks in hospital. **Who acts:** family, grandad · **What happens:** leave, step, fell, hurt, spend · **To what, where:** toy car, stairs, car, hip, hospital 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 (family, grandad), 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:6 # text = A little girl's family left a toy car on the stairs; her grandad stepped on it in the dark, fell and hurt his hip so badly he spent weeks in hospital. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 fell fell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 hip hip NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 29 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 32 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **leave** | past | a little girl's family | a toy car | | the stairs | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme on stair=Location | | 2 | **step** | past | family's grandad | | | car | | in the dark | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | | 3 | **fell** | past | family's grandad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hurt** | past | family's grandad *not said here* | grandad's hip | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Patient | | 5 | **spend** | past | grandad | | | hospital | week | badly *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/5/) - next →: [Going up and down stairs safely, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/)