Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 18
Older people who fall on stairs can break a hip, which can take months to heal.
Who acts: Older people, hip · What happens: fall, break, take, heal · To what, where: stairs, hip
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 (Older people, hip), 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 break | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stairs | case |
| 6 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | aux |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hip | det |
| 10 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hip | acl:relcl |
| 15 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 heal | mark |
| 17 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 months | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Older people | stairs | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stair=Location | ||||
| 2 | break | can | Older people | a hip | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | can | a hip | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | heal | to-infinitive | a hip not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:18.
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. 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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