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title: Tall furniture and TVs that are not fixed to the wall can tip over a… — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics
description: Tall furniture and TVs that are not fixed to the wall can tip over and crush small children. Who acts: Tall 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 20

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Tall furniture and TVs that are not fixed to the wall can tip over and crush small children.

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**Who acts:** Tall furniture · **What happens:** not fix, tip over, crush · **To what, where:** Tall furniture, small children

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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 (Tall 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:20
# text = Tall furniture and TVs that are not fixed to the wall can tip over and crush small children.
# 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	Tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	TVs	tv	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	tip	tip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fix** | present · passive |  | Tall furniture and TVs |  |  |  | to the wall | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to wall=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **tip over** | can | Tall furniture and TVs |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **crush** | infinitive | Tall furniture and TVs *not said here* | small children |  |  |  |  | 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:20`.

**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/).

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