--- title: Icy steps make people fall, so walk carefully and tell a grown-up to… — Home myths, first aid and weather warnings · tree and pragmatics description: Icy steps make people fall, so walk carefully and tell a grown-up to grit or salt them, which means spreading tiny stones or salt so feet grip and the ice melts. Who acts: Icy steps, people, feet, ice. 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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 (Icy steps, people, feet, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:11 # text = Icy steps make people fall, so walk carefully and tell a grown-up to grit or salt them, which means spreading tiny stones or salt so feet grip and the ice melts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 15 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 grit grit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 salt salt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl:relcl _ _ 24 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Icy steps | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | infinitive | | | | | | carefully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a grown up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **grit** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **salt** | infinitive | | people | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | | 8 | **mean** | present | | spreading tiny stones or salt | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **spread** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **grip** | present | feet | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **melt** | present | the ice | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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): R7-rel-agree ×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: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/10/) - next →: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/)