Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 17

A boy in Ohio tried to cut a bagel by holding it in his palm; the knife slipped and he needed stitches in his hand.

Who acts: boy, knife · What happens: try, cut, hold, slip, need · To what, where: bagel, palm, stitches, hand

This is a sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» 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, knife), 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 tried	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bagel	det
9	bagel	bagel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 holding	mark
11	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cut	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 holding	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 palm	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 palm	nmod:poss
15	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holding	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 slipped	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knife	det
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slipped	nsubj
19	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 needed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 needed	nsubj
22	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slipped	conj
23	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 needed	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past	a boy in Ohio			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cut not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Ohio not said here	a bagel		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bagel=Product
3	hold	gerund	a boy in Ohio not said here	bagel	boy's palm	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in palm=Location
4	slip	past	the knife			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	need	past	boy	stitches	boy's hand	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme

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:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:17.

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.

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