Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 3

For example, a boy in Florida sees his baby sister holding the little round battery from the TV remote; he takes it away, tells his mum at once, and she checks whether any is missing.

Who acts: boy, baby sister, Florida, any · What happens: see, hold, take away, tell, check, be · To what, where: baby sister, little round battery, TV remote, remote, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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, baby sister, Florida, any), 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 sees	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Florida	case
7	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sister	compound
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	obj
12	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sees	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 battery	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 battery	amod
15	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 battery	compound
16	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holding	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 remote	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 remote	det
19	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remote	compound
20	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 battery	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 takes	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 takes	nsubj
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sees	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 takes	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	23 takes	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tells	punct
27	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 takes	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mum	nmod:poss
29	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tells	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 tells	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 checks	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 checks	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 checks	nsubj
35	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sees	conj
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	39 missing	mark
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 missing	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 missing	cop
39	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 checks	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sees	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	a boy in Florida	boy's baby sister			for example	tree rules
2	hold	gerund	boy's baby sister not said here	the little round battery		the TV remote		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme
3	take away	present	boy	remote			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	boy not said here		boy's mum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
5	check	present	Florida					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	any				missing property	tree rules

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:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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