--- title: A tall bookshelf or chest of drawers can tip over when a child climb… — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics description: A tall bookshelf or chest of drawers can tip over when a child climbs it or pulls out its drawers, which is why grown-ups fix tall furniture to the wall. Who acts: tall bookshelf, child, grown ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tall bookshelf, child, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.lesson:1 # text = A tall bookshelf or chest of drawers can tip over when a child climbs it or pulls out its drawers, which is why grown-ups fix tall furniture to the wall. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bookshelf bookshelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 drawers drawer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 tip tip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 over over ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 drawers drawer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 parataxis _ _ 25 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fix fix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl:relcl _ _ 29 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tip over** | can | a tall bookshelf or chest of drawers | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **climb** | present | a child | chest | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme | | 3 | **pull out** | present | a child *not said here* | chest's drawers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fix** | present | grown ups | tall furniture | | | | to the wall | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent furniture=Patient to wall=Co-Patient | 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:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Windows, balconies and furniture, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/0/) - next →: [Windows, balconies and furniture, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/)