Windows, balconies and furniture, sentence 18
A girl in Texas climbed a tall bookcase to reach a toy; it tipped over onto her, and she was trapped under it until her dad lifted it off.
Who acts: girl, toy, dad · What happens: climb, reach, tip over, trap, lift off · To what, where: tall bookcase, toy, girl
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 (girl, toy, dad), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bookcase | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bookcase | amod |
| 8 | bookcase | bookcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 reach | mark |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 climbed | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 toy | det |
| 12 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tipped | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tipped | nsubj |
| 15 | tipped | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | parataxis |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 tipped | advmod |
| 17 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tipped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trapped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trapped | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 trapped | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 trapped | aux:pass |
| 23 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 climbed | conj |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 trapped | obl |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 lifted | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dad | nmod:poss |
| 28 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lifted | nsubj |
| 29 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 trapped | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lifted | obj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 lifted | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | a girl in Texas | a tall bookcase | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bookcase=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | a girl in Texas not said here | a toy | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent toy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tip over | past | toy | onto girl; over property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent onto she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | trap | past · passive | girl | toy | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under it=Destination | ||||
| 5 | lift off | past | girl's dad | toy | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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