Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 17

Children climb a ladder only when a grown-up says yes and holds it, because ladders can slip and fall.

Who acts: Children, ladders · What happens: climb, grow up, say, hold, slip, fall · To what, where: ladder, handle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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 (Children, ladders), 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	Children	Children	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climb	nsubj
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ladder	det
4	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climb	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	11 says	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 says	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grown	det
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 says	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 grown	punct
10	up	up	PART	_	8 grown	compound:prt
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	advcl
12	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	14 holds	discourse
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 holds	cc
14	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 holds	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slip	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 slip	mark
18	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 slip	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 slip	aux
20	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 climb	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fall	cc
22	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 slip	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climb	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	climb	present	Children	a ladder	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme
2	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	hold	present		handle	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	slip	can	ladders		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	fall	infinitive	ladders not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:17.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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