--- title: Even something small dropped from a balcony falls fast and can badly… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics description: Even something small dropped from a balcony falls fast and can badly hurt a person below, so nothing is ever thrown or dropped from a height. Who acts: something. A sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/) / 0 # Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 0 Even something small dropped from a balcony falls fast and can badly hurt a person below, so nothing is ever thrown or dropped from a height. **Who acts:** something · **What happens:** drop, fall, hurt, throw · **To what, where:** balcony, person, nothing, height This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 (something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:0 # text = Even something small dropped from a balcony falls fast and can badly hurt a person below, so nothing is ever thrown or dropped from a height. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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 ×2 1 Even even ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 below below ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 22 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **drop** | participle | | | | a balcony | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from balcony=Trajectory | | 2 | **fall** | present | something | | | | | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hurt** | can | something *not said here* | a person | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient | | 4 | **throw** | present · passive | | nothing | | | ever | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **drop** | participle | | | | a height | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from height=Trajectory | 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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:0`. **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 ×2. **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: [Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors/20/) - next →: [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/)