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title: Climbing on unsteady things is a common cause of falls at home. — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plug… · tree and pragmatics
description: Climbing on unsteady things is a common cause of falls at home. Who acts: Climbing. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies, sentence 14

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Climbing on unsteady things is a common cause of falls at home.

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**Who acts:** Climbing · **What happens:** climb, be · **To what, where:** unsteady things, common cause

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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 (Climbing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:14
# text = Climbing on unsteady things is a common cause of falls at home.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.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	Climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	unsteady	unsteady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **climb** | gerund |  |  |  | unsteady things |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thing=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Climbing | a common cause |  |  |  | of falls at home | tree rules |

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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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**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.

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