Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 4

For example, a boy in Denver carrying a tall laundry basket downstairs cannot see the steps, so he takes half the clothes first and holds the rail with his free hand.

Who acts: boy · What happens: carry, not see, take, hold · To what, where: tall laundry basket, steps, clothes, rail

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 (boy), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Denver	case
7	Denver	Denver	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 boy	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 basket	det
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 basket	amod
11	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 basket	compound
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
13	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	8 carrying	advmod
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 steps	det
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 takes	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 takes	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 takes	nsubj
22	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 see	conj
23	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	25 clothes	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clothes	det
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 takes	obj
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 takes	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 holds	cc
28	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 takes	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rail	det
30	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 holds	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 hand	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
33	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hand	amod
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 holds	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	a boy in Denver not said here	a tall laundry basket	downstairs property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
2	not see	can	a boy in Denver	the steps	for example	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus
3	take	present	boy	half clothes	first property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
4	hold	present	boy not said here	the rail	with boy's free hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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