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title: Tall shelves can tip if climbed, so use the step stool or ask the li… — The library and books · tree and pragmatics
description: Tall shelves can tip if climbed, so use the step stool or ask the librarian. Who acts: Tall shelves. A sentence of the lesson «The library and books» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The library and books, sentence 18

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Tall shelves can tip if climbed, so use the step stool or ask the librarian.

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**Who acts:** Tall shelves · **What happens:** tip, climb, use, ask · **To what, where:** step stool, librarian

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The library and books» 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 (Tall shelves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:259-library-and-books.lesson:18
# text = Tall shelves can tip if climbed, so use the step stool or ask the librarian.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 259-library-and-books.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): no change
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tip	tip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	librarian	librarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **tip** | can | Tall shelves |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **climb** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | Tall shelves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive |  | the step stool |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Patient |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  | the librarian |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent librarian=Recipient |

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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:259-library-and-books.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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