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title: Spills on the floor should be wiped up at once, because wet floors c… — Safe in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Spills on the floor should be wiped up at once, because wet floors cause slips and falls. Who acts: wet floors. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» 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, sentence 19

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Spills on the floor should be wiped up at once, because wet floors cause slips and falls.

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**Who acts:** wet floors · **What happens:** wipe up, cause · **To what, where:** Spills, slips

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» 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 (wet floors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:031-kitchen-safety.lesson:19
# text = Spills on the floor should be wiped up at once, because wet floors cause slips and falls.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 031-kitchen-safety.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	Spills	spill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	slips	slip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **wipe up** | should · passive |  | Spills on the floor |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cause** | present | wet floors | slips and falls |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition slip=Patient |

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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:031-kitchen-safety.lesson:19`.

**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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