Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 5
A boy in Ohio ran down the stairs in his socks carrying a laundry basket he could not see over; he slipped on the third step from the top, fell to the bottom and broke his arm.
Who acts: boy · What happens: run down, carry, not see over, slip, fall, break · To what, where: stairs, socks, laundry basket, arm
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 (boy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 stairs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stairs | det |
| 8 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 socks | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 socks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ran | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 basket | det |
| 14 | laundry | laundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 basket | compound |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 basket | acl:relcl |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 slipped | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slipped | nsubj |
| 23 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 step | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 step | det |
| 26 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 step | amod |
| 27 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slipped | obl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 top | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 top | det |
| 30 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 step | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fell | punct |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 slipped | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 bottom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bottom | det |
| 35 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 broke | cc |
| 37 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fell | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 arm | nmod:poss |
| 39 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 broke | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | a boy in Ohio | the stairs | boy's socks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stair=Theme in sock=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | a boy in Ohio not said here | a laundry basket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see over | could | boy | a laundry basket not said here | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | slip | past | boy | on the third step from the top | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | boy not said here | to the bottom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=Theme | ||||
| 6 | break | past | boy not said here | boy's arm | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=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:001-stairs.lesson:5.
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 ×2, 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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