--- title: A toddler in New York climbed onto a chair by an open window; she fe… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics description: A toddler in New York climbed onto a chair by an open window; she fell from the second floor and was badly hurt, which is why window guards are now law in many flats there. Who acts: toddler, window guards. 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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 (toddler, window guards), 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:17 # text = A toddler in New York climbed onto a chair by an open window; she fell from the second floor and was badly hurt, which is why window guards are now law in many flats there. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 flat _ _ 5 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 onto onto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 17 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 amod _ _ 20 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 conj _ _ 29 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 now now ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nmod 37 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | past | a toddler in New York | | | a chair | | by a open window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chair=Trajectory | | 2 | **fall** | past | toddler | | | the second floor | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from floor=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **hurt** | past · passive | toddler *not said here* | | | | | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | window guards | law | | many flats | now | | tree rules | 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:17`. **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. 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