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title: To reach a high cupboard, use a steady step stool or ask someone tal… — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: To reach a high cupboard, use a steady step stool or ask someone tall, never a wheeled chair or the counter edge. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 8

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To reach a high cupboard, use a steady step stool or ask someone tall, never a wheeled chair or the counter edge.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** reach, use, ask, wheel · **To what, where:** high cupboard, steady step stool, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:8
# text = To reach a high cupboard, use a steady step stool or ask someone tall, never a wheeled chair or the counter edge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	iobj	_	_
15	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:xcomp
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a high cupboard |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cupboard=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a steady step stool |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | someone |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
| 4 | **wheel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:8`.

**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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