Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 21

A boy in Australia left a rake lying teeth-up on the lawn; he stepped on it in the evening, the handle flew up and hit his face, and he needed stitches above his eye.

Who acts: boy, rake, handle · What happens: leave, lie, step, fly up, hit, need · To what, where: rake, teeth up, lawn, pool, face, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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, rake, handle), 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 left	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rake	det
7	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 rake	acl
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 up	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 lawn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lawn	det
14	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stepped	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stepped	nsubj
17	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stepped	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 evening	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stepped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flew	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 handle	det
25	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stepped	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 flew	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hit	cc
29	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flew	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hit	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 needed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 needed	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 needed	nsubj
35	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
36	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 needed	obj
37	above	above	ADP	_	39 eye	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 eye	nmod:poss
39	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stitches	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past	a boy in Australia	a rake			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rake=Theme
2	lie	gerund	a rake not said here	teeth up	the lawn		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location up=Theme
3	step	past	boy		pool	evening	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
4	fly up	past	the handle				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hit	past	the handle not said here	boy's face			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme
6	need	past	boy	stitches	boy's eye		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:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:21.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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