Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 16
A baby can pull a tablecloth and bring hot drinks or heavy pots down onto himself.
Who acts: baby · What happens: pull, bring · To what, where: tablecloth, hot drinks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (baby), 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 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | aux |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tablecloth | det |
| 6 | tablecloth | tablecloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bring | cc |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pull | conj |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drinks | amod |
| 10 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 pots | cc |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pots | amod |
| 13 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drinks | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 15 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 bring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | can | a baby | a tablecloth | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablecloth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | a baby not said here | hot drinks or heavy pots | onto Canada; down property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drink=Theme onto himself=Destination |
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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:16.
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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