--- title: Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded. — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded. Who acts: Stepping. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology 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/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/4/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Road and railway safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/) / 4 # Road and railway safety, sentence 4 Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded. **Who acts:** Stepping · **What happens:** step out, be, blindfold This is a sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology 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 (Stepping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:4 # text = Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 027-road-and-railway-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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stepping step VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ _ 2 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 4 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 stepping step VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 obl _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 blindfolded blindfold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 xcomp _ _ 9 . . 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 | **step out** | gerund | | | | there | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | Stepping | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **step out** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **blindfold** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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:technology:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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: [Road and railway safety, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/3/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)