Responsibility, independence and curiosity, sentence 16

A boy in Texas let his little brother play near the pool while he looked at his phone; his brother fell in and was pulled out by their mum just in time.

Who acts: boy, little brother, brother, mum · What happens: let, play, look, fall in, pull out · To what, where: pool

This is a sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» 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, little brother, brother, mum), 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 let	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	nsubj
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 pool	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pool	det
12	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 looked	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 phone	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 phone	nmod:poss
18	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pulled	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pulled	aux:pass
26	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 fell	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 pulled	compound:prt
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 mum	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mum	nmod:poss
30	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pulled	obl
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 time	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 time	case
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pulled	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	a boy in Texas				tree rules
2	play	infinitive	boy's little brother	the pool			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	brother			at boy's phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme
4	fall in	past	boy's brother				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pull out	past · passive	questions's mum		time		vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:16.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/16/