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title: A toddler in England climbed a chair someone had left by a balcony r… — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plug… · tree and pragmatics
description: A toddler in England climbed a chair someone had left by a balcony railing; she fell to the floor below and was badly hurt. Who acts: toddler, someone. 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 i
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# Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies, sentence 23

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A toddler in England climbed a chair someone had left by a balcony railing; she fell to the floor below and was badly hurt.

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**Who acts:** toddler, someone · **What happens:** climb, leave, fall, hurt · **To what, where:** chair

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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 (toddler, someone), 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:23
# text = A toddler in England climbed a chair someone had left by a balcony railing; she fell to the floor below and was badly hurt.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	railing	railing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	below	below	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | past | a toddler in England | a chair |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location chair=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | someone | a chair *not said here* |  |  |  | by a balcony railing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chair=Theme by railing=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past | toddler |  |  |  |  | to the floor | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to floor=Theme |
| 4 | **hurt** | past · passive | toddler *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

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