--- title: Follow building instructions one step at a time and check before goi… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics description: Follow building instructions one step at a time and check before going on, because skipped steps lead to mistakes. Who acts: you, skipped steps. 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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 (you, skipped steps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:13 # text = Follow building instructions one step at a time and check before going on, because skipped steps lead to mistakes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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 Follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 skipped skip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | building instructions | | | | one step at a time *obl:unmarked* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | | 2 | **check** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go on** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **skip** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | present | skipped steps | | | | | to mistakes | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to mistake=Patient | 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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:13`. **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/). - ← previous: [Building and making things safely, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/12/) - next →: [Building and making things safely, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/)