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title: Holding the handrail lets you catch yourself if you trip or slip. — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding the handrail lets you catch yourself if you trip or slip. Who acts: Holding, you. 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 clause.
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# Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 8

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Holding the handrail lets you catch yourself if you trip or slip.

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**Who acts:** Holding, you · **What happens:** hold, let, catch, trip, slip · **To what, where:** handrail, yourself

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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 (Holding, 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:8
# text = Holding the handrail lets you catch yourself if you trip or slip.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	handrail	handrail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	trip	trip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | the handrail |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handrail=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | present | Holding |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | infinitive | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 4 | **trip** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **slip** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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