Windows, balconies and furniture, sentence 1

A tall bookshelf or chest of drawers can tip over when a child climbs it or pulls out its drawers, which is why grown-ups fix tall furniture to the wall.

Who acts: tall bookshelf, child, grown ups · What happens: tip over, climb, pull out, be, grow, fix · To what, where: chest, drawers, tall furniture

This is a sentence of the lesson «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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 (tall bookshelf, child, grown ups), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bookshelf	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bookshelf	amod
3	bookshelf	bookshelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tip	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 chest	cc
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bookshelf	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 drawers	case
7	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chest	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tip	aux
9	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	over	over	ADP	_	9 tip	compound:prt
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 climbs	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 climbs	nsubj
14	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tip	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 climbs	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 pulls	cc
17	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 climbs	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 pulls	compound:prt
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 drawers	nmod:poss
20	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pulls	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 why	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 why	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 why	cop
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 tip	parataxis
25	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 ups	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 grown	punct
27	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fix	nsubj
28	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 why	advcl:relcl
29	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 furniture	amod
30	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fix	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 wall	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wall	det
33	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fix	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tip	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tip over	can	a tall bookshelf or chest of drawers			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	climb	present	a child	chest		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
3	pull out	present	a child not said here	chest's drawers		tree rules
4	is	present			why property	tree rules
5	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fix	present	grown ups	tall furniture	to the wall	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent furniture=Patient to wall=Co-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:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.lesson:1.

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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