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title: Climbing down is often harder than climbing up because you cannot se… — Climbing trees and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Climbing down is often harder than climbing up because you cannot see where your feet go. Who acts: Climbing, you, feet. A sentence of the lesson «Climbing trees and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Climbing trees and playgrounds, sentence 11

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Climbing down is often harder than climbing up because you cannot see where your feet go.

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**Who acts:** Climbing, you, feet · **What happens:** climb down, be, climb up, not see, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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, you, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:004-climbing.lesson:11
# text = Climbing down is often harder than climbing up because you cannot see where your feet go.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 004-climbing.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	5	csubj	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Climbing |  |  |  |  | hard, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **climb up** | gerund | Climbing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | present | your feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:004-climbing.lesson:11`.

**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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