Chores and broken things, sentence 19

A boy in Leeds picked up a broken glass with his bare hands; he cut his palm and needed stitches.

Who acts: boy · What happens: pick up, break, cut, need · To what, where: broken glass, palm, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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), 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 picked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 picked	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 glass	det
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 glass	amod
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 hands	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hands	amod
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picked	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cut	nsubj
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 picked	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 palm	nmod:poss
18	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 needed	cc
20	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	conj
21	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 needed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 picked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	a boy in Leeds	a broken glass	with boy's bare hands	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Topic
2	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	cut	past	boy	boy's palm		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palm=Product
4	need	past	boy not said here	stitches		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:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:19.

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): 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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