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title: Standing on chairs, buckets or furniture that wobble causes many fal… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing on chairs, buckets or furniture that wobble causes many falls at home, so use a proper step stool. Who acts: furniture. A sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 22

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Standing on chairs, buckets or furniture that wobble causes many falls at home, so use a proper step stool.

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**Who acts:** furniture · **What happens:** stand, wobble, cause, use · **To what, where:** chairs, many falls, home, proper step stool

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» 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 (furniture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:22
# text = Standing on chairs, buckets or furniture that wobble causes many falls at home, so use a proper step stool.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 002-balance-and-falling-well.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
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
7	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wobble	wobble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | chairs and buckets or furniture |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |
| 2 | **wobble** | present | furniture |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | present |  | many falls |  | home |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fall=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive |  | a proper step stool |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=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:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:22`.

**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. **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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