--- title: A staircase of 4 steps built of cubes has 1, 2, 3 and 4 cubes in its… — A staircase of cubes and handshakes · tree and pragmatics description: A staircase of 4 steps built of cubes has 1, 2, 3 and 4 cubes in its steps: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 cubes. Who acts: staircase. A sentence of the lesson «A staircase of cubes and handshakes» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/130-staircase-and-handshakes/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [A staircase of cubes and handshakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/130-staircase-and-handshakes/) / 0 # A staircase of cubes and handshakes, sentence 0 A staircase of 4 steps built of cubes has 1, 2, 3 and 4 cubes in its steps: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 cubes. **Who acts:** staircase · **What happens:** build, have, step · **To what, where:** 4 steps, 1 3 cubes This is a sentence of the lesson «A staircase of cubes and handshakes» of the lessons 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 (staircase), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:130-staircase-and-handshakes.lesson:0 # text = A staircase of 4 steps built of cubes has 1, 2, 3 and 4 cubes in its steps: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 cubes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 130-staircase-and-handshakes.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 staircase staircase NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 cubes cube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 conj _ _ 17 cubes cube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 23 + + SYM SYM _ 24 cc _ _ 24 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 conj _ _ 25 + + SYM SYM _ 26 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod 26 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 flat _ _ 27 + + SYM SYM _ 28 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod 28 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 29 = = SYM SYM _ 30 case _ _ 30 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 31 cubes cube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | participle | | 4 steps *not said here* | | | | of cubes | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **have** | present | a staircase of 4 steps | 1 3 cubes | | | | in staircase's steps | tree rules | | 3 | **step** | | staircase | | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:lessons:130-staircase-and-handshakes.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Sisters and brothers, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/129-sisters-and-brothers/2/) - next →: [A staircase of cubes and handshakes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/130-staircase-and-handshakes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/130-staircase-and-handshakes/)