Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, sentence 18

A boy in Leeds left toys on the stairs after being asked to tidy up; his grandad tripped on one and broke his wrist.

Who acts: boy, grandad · What happens: leave, ask, tidy up, trip, break · To what, where: toys, stairs, wrist

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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, 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stairs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stairs	det
9	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obl
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 asked	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 asked	aux:pass
12	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 left	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tidy	mark
14	tidy	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 tidy	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 tripped	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grandad	nmod:poss
18	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tripped	nsubj
19	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 tripped	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 broke	cc
23	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tripped	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wrist	nmod:poss
25	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	a boy in Leeds	toys	the stairs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toy=Theme on stair=Location
2	ask speech: ask	gerund · passive	a boy in Leeds not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
3	tidy up not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Leeds not said here				tree rules
4	trip	past	boy's grandad			on one	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Trajectory
5	break	past	boy's grandad not said here	boy's wrist			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=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:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.lesson:18.

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): 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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