Home myths, first aid and weather warnings, sentence 11

Icy steps make people fall, so walk carefully and tell a grown-up to grit or salt them, which means spreading tiny stones or salt so feet grip and the ice melts.

Who acts: Icy steps, people, feet, ice · What happens: make, fall, walk, tell, grow, grit · To what, where: people, grown up, spreading tiny stones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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 (Icy steps, people, feet, ice), 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	Icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 steps	amod
2	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
8	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 up	det
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 up	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grit	mark
17	grit	grit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 salt	cc
19	salt	salt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 grit	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 salt	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 salt	advcl:relcl
24	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 stones	amod
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stones	amod
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 means	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 salt	cc
28	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stones	conj
29	so	so	SCONJ	_	31 grip	mark
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grip	nsubj
31	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 means	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 melts	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ice	det
34	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 melts	nsubj
35	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 grip	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Icy steps	people		tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	people not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	infinitive			carefully property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a grown up		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
5	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grit	to-infinitive				tree rules
7	salt	infinitive		people		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
8	mean	present		spreading tiny stones or salt		tree rules
9	spread	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	grip	present	feet			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	melt	present	the ice			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:11.

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. 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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