Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 9
Going down stairs is riskier than going up, because a slip sends you forward and down.
Who acts: Going, slip · What happens: go down, be, go up, send · To what, where: stairs, you
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 (Going, slip), 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 | Going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 riskier | csubj |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 stairs | case |
| 3 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Going | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 riskier | cop |
| 5 | riskier | risky | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 riskier | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sends | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 sends | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 slip | det |
| 12 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sends | nsubj |
| 13 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 riskier | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sends | obj |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 sends | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 down | cc |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 forward | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 riskier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | gerund | stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Going | risky property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go up | gerund | Going not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | send | present | a slip | you | forward property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:9.
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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