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title: Step onto a mat and hold the side when getting out of the bath, beca… — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Step onto a mat and hold the side when getting out of the bath, because wet surfaces are very slippery. Who acts: you, wet surfaces. A sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Baths, water at home and doors, sentence 5

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Step onto a mat and hold the side when getting out of the bath, because wet surfaces are very slippery.

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**Who acts:** you, wet surfaces · **What happens:** step, hold, get out, be · **To what, where:** mat, side, bath

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» 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, wet surfaces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.lesson:5
# text = Step onto a mat and hold the side when getting out of the bath, because wet surfaces are very slippery.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 109-baths-water-and-doors.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	Step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	surfaces	surface	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a mat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto mat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the side |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 3 | **get out** | gerund | you *not said here* | the bath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | wet surfaces |  |  |  |  | slippery *property* | tree rules |

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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:109-baths-water-and-doors.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): 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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