Going up and down stairs safely, sentence 6
A little girl's family left a toy car on the stairs; her grandad stepped on it in the dark, fell and hurt his hip so badly he spent weeks in hospital.
Who acts: family, grandad · What happens: leave, step, fell, hurt, spend · To what, where: toy car, stairs, car, hip, hospital
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 (family, grandad), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 car | det |
| 8 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 car | compound |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 stairs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stairs | det |
| 12 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 grandad | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stepped | nsubj |
| 16 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stepped | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dark | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dark | det |
| 21 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stepped | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 23 | fell | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stepped | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hurt | cc |
| 25 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fell | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hip | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hurt | obj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 badly | advmod |
| 29 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 spent | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 spent | nsubj |
| 31 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 32 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 spent | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hospital | case |
| 34 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spent | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | a little girl's family | a toy car | the stairs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme on stair=Location | |||
| 2 | step | past | family's grandad | car | in the dark | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fell | past | family's grandad not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hurt | past | family's grandad not said here | grandad's hip | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spend | past | grandad | hospital | week | badly property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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