Windows, balconies and furniture, sentence 9
Never stand on a chair or climb anything on a balcony, because you could fall over the railing.
Who acts: you · What happens: not stand, climb, fall · To what, where: chair, anything, balcony, railing
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 (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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 stand | advmod |
| 2 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 chair | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chair | det |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stand | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 climb | cc |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 stand | conj |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 climb | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 balcony | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 balcony | det |
| 11 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anything | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fall | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 fall | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fall | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fall | aux |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stand | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 railing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 railing | det |
| 19 | railing | railing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | imperative | you not said here | a chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location | ||||
| 2 | climb | infinitive | you not said here | anything | a balcony | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location anything=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | could | you | the railing | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over railing=Location |
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: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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