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title: Sit with all four chair legs on the floor, because a tipped chair sl… — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics
description: Sit with all four chair legs on the floor, because a tipped chair slips and you hit your head. Who acts: you, tipped chair. 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 11

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Sit with all four chair legs on the floor, because a tipped chair slips and you hit your head.

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**Who acts:** you, tipped chair · **What happens:** sit, tip, slip, hit · **To what, where:** floor, head

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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, tipped chair), 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:11
# text = Sit with all four chair legs on the floor, because a tipped chair slips and you hit your head.
# 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	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tipped	tip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hit	hit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  | with all four chair legs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
| 2 | **tip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slip** | present | a tipped chair |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **hit** | present | you | your head |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-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:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.lesson:11`.

**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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