Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 8
Holding the handrail lets you catch yourself if you trip or slip.
Who acts: Holding, you · What happens: hold, let, catch, trip, slip · To what, where: handrail, yourself
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 (Holding, 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lets | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 handrail | det |
| 3 | handrail | handrail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lets | xcomp |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 catch | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 trip | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 trip | nsubj |
| 10 | trip | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 catch | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 slip | cc |
| 12 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trip | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lets | punct |
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 | hold | gerund | the handrail | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handrail=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | present | Holding | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | catch | infinitive | you | yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | trip a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | slip | present | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:8.
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): 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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