Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 5

A boy in Texas jumped off a high garage roof into a pile of leaves, thinking they were soft; the leaves were thin, he hit the hard ground and broke both ankles.

Who acts: boy, knees, leaves · What happens: jump off, think, be, hit, break · To what, where: high garage roof, pile, hard ground, ankles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» 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, knees, leaves), 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 jumped	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	PART	_	5 jumped	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roof	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 roof	amod
9	garage	garage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roof	compound
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 pile	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pile	det
13	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 leaves	case
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pile	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thinking	punct
17	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 jumped	advcl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 soft	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 soft	cop
20	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thinking	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 thin	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 leaves	det
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thin	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thin	cop
25	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 soft	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hit	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hit	nsubj
28	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jumped	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
30	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ground	amod
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hit	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 broke	cc
33	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hit	conj
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	35 ankles	det
35	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 broke	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	a boy in Texas	a high garage roof	into a pile of leaves result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pile=Result
2	think speech: other	gerund	a boy in Texas not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	knees = knee		soft property	tree rules
4	is	past	the leaves		thin property	tree rules
5	hit	past	boy	the hard ground		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
6	break	past	boy not said here	both ankles		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ankle=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:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.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): 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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