Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 16
Looking at a phone while walking on stairs makes you miss steps.
Who acts: Looking, you · What happens: look, walk, make, miss · To what, where: stairs, steps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Going up and down stairs safely» 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 (Looking, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 makes | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 phone | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 phone | det |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 walking | mark |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Looking | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stairs | case |
| 8 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walking | obl |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 miss | nsubj |
| 11 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 makes | ccomp |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 miss | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | at a phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | stairs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stair=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Looking | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | miss | present | you | steps | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus |
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, 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:001-stairs.lesson:16.
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.
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