Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 3
For example, a girl in Texas finds a marble on the rug where her baby brother crawls; she picks it up and puts it high on a shelf before he can reach it.
Who acts: girl, baby brother, brother · What happens: find, crawl, pick up, put, reach · To what, where: marble, rug, shelf
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 (girl, baby brother, brother), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finds | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Texas | case |
| 7 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | nmod |
| 8 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 marble | det |
| 10 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finds | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rug | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rug | det |
| 13 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marble | nmod |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 crawls | advmod |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brother | compound |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crawls | nsubj |
| 18 | crawls | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 rug | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 picks | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 picks | nsubj |
| 21 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 finds | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 picks | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 picks | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 puts | cc |
| 25 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 picks | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 puts | obj |
| 27 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 puts | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 shelf | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 shelf | det |
| 30 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 puts | obl |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 reach | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 reach | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 reach | aux |
| 34 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 puts | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 reach | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a girl in Texas | a marble | the rug | for example | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent marble=Theme for example=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | crawl | present | girl's baby brother | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pick up | present | girl | marble | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | put | present | girl not said here | marble | a shelf | high property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shelf=Destination | ||
| 5 | reach | can | brother | marble | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: 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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:3.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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