Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 19
If someone falls and a bone may be broken (it hurts a lot or looks a strange shape), keep them still and get an adult at once; never try to pull it straight yourself.
Who acts: someone, bone, you · What happens: fall, break, hurt, look, keep, get · To what, where: bone, lot, strange shape, people, adult
This is a sentence of the lesson «Going up and down stairs safely» 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 (someone, bone, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 falls | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 broken | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bone | det |
| 6 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 broken | aux:pass |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 falls | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurts | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hurts | nsubj |
| 12 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hurts | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 looks | cc |
| 16 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hurts | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shape | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shape | amod |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looks | obj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurts | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | obj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 keep | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | conj |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 adult | det |
| 28 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 once | case |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 get | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 try | punct |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 try | advmod |
| 33 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 pull | mark |
| 35 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 try | xcomp |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pull | obj |
| 37 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 35 pull | advmod |
| 38 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 pull | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | may · passive | a bone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hurt | present | bone | a lot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | look | present | bone not said here | a strange shape | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shape=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | keep | imperative | you not said here | people | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 6 | get | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent adult=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 7 | not try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 8 | pull not said to happen | to-infinitive | adult | yourself obl; straight property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:001-stairs.lesson:19.
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 ×3. 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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