--- title: Toddlers fall against the sharp corners of tables, so they need watc… — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics description: Toddlers fall against the sharp corners of tables, so they need watching and grown-ups can fit corner guards. Who acts: Toddlers, 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 (Toddlers, 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:14 # text = Toddlers fall against the sharp corners of tables, so they need watching and grown-ups can fit corner guards. # 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 Toddlers toddler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 tables table NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 20 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | Toddlers | | | the sharp corners of tables | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against corner=Location | | 2 | **need** | present | Toddlers *= toddler* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **watch** *not said to happen* | gerund | Toddlers *= toddler* *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fit** | can | grown ups | corner guards | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=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:14`. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/13/) - next →: [Windows, balconies and furniture, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/)