--- title: The one sensible reason not to walk under a ladder is safety: a tool… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: The one sensible reason not to walk under a ladder is safety: a tool or a paint pot could fall; stepping into a busy road to avoid it is more dangerous. Who acts: one sensible reason, tool, stepping. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one sensible reason, tool, stepping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:17 # text = The one sensible reason not to walk under a ladder is safety: a tool or a paint pot could fall; stepping into a busy road to avoid it is more dangerous. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 under under ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 csubj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **walk** | to-infinitive | the one sensible reason *not said here* | | | a ladder | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ladder=Trajectory | | 2 | **is a** | present | the one sensible reason | safety | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | could | a tool or a paint pot | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **step** | gerund | | | | a busy road | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination | | 5 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | | reason | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | | 6 | **is** | present | stepping | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:17`. **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, R6-punct-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. 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