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title: Climbing a tall tree on a dare can leave you stuck or hurt. — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Climbing a tall tree on a dare can leave you stuck or hurt. Who acts: Climbing. A sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Staying up, screens and coming home late, sentence 21

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Climbing a tall tree on a dare can leave you stuck or hurt.

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**Who acts:** Climbing · **What happens:** climb, leave, hurt · **To what, where:** tall tree, dare, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:21
# text = Climbing a tall tree on a dare can leave you stuck or hurt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.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	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 |  | a tall tree |  | a dare |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | can | Climbing | you |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | infinitive | Climbing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:21`.

**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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