--- title: A boy in Texas stood on a wobbly chair on top of a table to reach a… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas stood on a wobbly chair on top of a table to reach a shelf; the chair tipped, he fell onto the hard floor and needed stitches in his chin. Who acts: boy, chair. 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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 (boy, chair), 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:6 # text = A boy in Texas stood on a wobbly chair on top of a table to reach a shelf; the chair tipped, he fell onto the hard floor and needed stitches in his chin. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 tipped tip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 onto onto ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | a boy in Texas | | | a wobbly chair on top of a table | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | a boy in Texas *not said here* | a shelf | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme | | 3 | **tip** | past | the chair | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fall** | past | boy | | | the hard floor | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto floor=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **need** | past | boy *not said here* | stitches | | boy's chin | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme | 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:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Balance and falling well, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/4/) - next →: [Balance and falling well, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/)