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title: Never climb furniture, because it can tip over and crush a child. — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics
description: Never climb furniture, because it can tip over and crush a child. Who acts: you, furniture. A sentence of the lesson «Windows, balconies and furniture» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Windows, balconies and furniture, sentence 10

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Never climb furniture, because it can tip over and crush a child.

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**Who acts:** you, furniture · **What happens:** not climb, tip over, crush · **To what, where:** furniture, child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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, furniture), 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:10
# text = Never climb furniture, because it can tip over and crush a child.
# 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): no change
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tip	tip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* | furniture |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location furniture=Theme |
| 2 | **tip over** | can | furniture |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **crush** | infinitive | furniture *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.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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