--- title: Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepp… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics description: Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepped on, and a fall onto concrete can kill. Who acts: Old roofs, skylights, fall. A sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/8/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, rai…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/) / 8 # Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 8 Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepped on, and a fall onto concrete can kill. **Who acts:** Old roofs, skylights, fall · **What happens:** have, break, step on, kill · **To what, where:** skylights This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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 (Old roofs, skylights, fall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:8 # text = Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepped on, and a fall onto concrete can kill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 skylights skylight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 panels panel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 stepped step VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 onto onto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Old roofs | skylights and thin panels | | | | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skylight=Patient | | 2 | **break** | present | skylights and thin panels | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **step on** | participle | skylights and thin panels *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | can | a fall onto concrete | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:8`. **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 ×1, 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. 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