Windows, balconies and furniture, sentence 14
Toddlers fall against the sharp corners of tables, so they need watching and grown-ups can fit corner guards.
Who acts: Toddlers, grown ups · What happens: fall, need, watch, grow, fit · To what, where: sharp corners, corner guards
This is a sentence of the lesson «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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 (Toddlers, grown ups), 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 | Toddlers | toddler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 corners | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corners | det |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 corners | amod |
| 6 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fall | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tables | case |
| 8 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 corners | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 need | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 need | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fall | conj |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 need | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fit | cc |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ups | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 17 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fit | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fit | aux |
| 19 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 need | conj |
| 20 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 guards | compound |
| 21 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fit | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Toddlers | the sharp corners of tables | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Toddlers = toddler | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch not said to happen | gerund | Toddlers = toddler not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | fit | can | grown ups | corner guards | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=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:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×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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