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title: Climb only on a steady step stool, never on a chair with wheels or t… — Knives, kitchen tools and cooking · tree and pragmatics
description: Climb only on a steady step stool, never on a chair with wheels or the counter edge. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 10

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Climb only on a steady step stool, never on a chair with wheels or the counter edge.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** climb · **To what, where:** steady step stool

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:10
# text = Climb only on a steady step stool, never on a chair with wheels or the counter edge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.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	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a steady step stool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stool=Trajectory |

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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:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:10`.

**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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