Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 17

The one sensible reason not to walk under a ladder is safety: a tool or a paint pot could fall; stepping into a busy road to avoid it is more dangerous.

Who acts: one sensible reason, tool, stepping · What happens: not walk, be, fall, step, avoid · To what, where: ladder, safety, busy road, reason

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (one sensible reason, tool, stepping), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 reason	nummod
3	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 safety	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 walk	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reason	acl:relcl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 ladder	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ladder	det
10	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safety	cop
12	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 fall	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tool	det
15	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fall	nsubj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 pot	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pot	det
18	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pot	compound
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tool	conj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fall	aux
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 safety	parataxis
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 dangerous	punct
23	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 dangerous	csubj
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 road	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 road	det
26	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 road	amod
27	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stepping	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 avoid	mark
29	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stepping	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 avoid	obj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dangerous	cop
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 dangerous	advmod
33	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fall	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 safety	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not walk	to-infinitive	the one sensible reason not said here		a ladder		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ladder=Trajectory
2	is a	present	the one sensible reason	safety			tree rules
3	fall	could	a tool or a paint pot				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	step	gerund			a busy road		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination
5	avoid	to-infinitive		reason			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
6	is	present	stepping			dangerous property	tree rules

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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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