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title: Going down stairs is riskier than going up, because a slip sends you… — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Going down stairs is riskier than going up, because a slip sends you forward and down. Who acts: Going, slip. 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 9

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Going down stairs is riskier than going up, because a slip sends you forward and down.

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**Who acts:** Going, slip · **What happens:** go down, be, go up, send · **To what, where:** stairs, you

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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 (Going, slip), 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:9
# text = Going down stairs is riskier than going up, because a slip sends you forward and down.
# 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	Going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	riskier	risky	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | gerund |  | stairs |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Going |  |  |  |  | risky *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go up** | gerund | Going *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **send** | present | a slip | you |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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