--- title: Height makes things dangerous: a fall from a window or a top bunk hu… — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics description: Height makes things dangerous: a fall from a window or a top bunk hurts badly, and even a small object dropped from a balcony can seriously hurt someone below. Who acts: Height, fall, small object. 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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 (Height, fall, small object), 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:2 # text = Height makes things dangerous: a fall from a window or a top bunk hurts badly, and even a small object dropped from a balcony can seriously hurt someone below. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1 1 Height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bunk bunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 30 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 below below ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Height | things | | | | dangerous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | | 2 | **hurt** | present | a fall from a window or a top bunk | | | | | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **drop** | participle | | a small object *not said here* | | a balcony | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from balcony=Trajectory | | 4 | **hurt** | can | a small object | someone | | | | seriously *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/1/) - next →: [Windows, balconies and furniture, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/)