Home myths, first aid and weather warnings, sentence 14

A boy in Leeds believed the myth that you should put butter on a burn; he did, and the burn blistered badly until he cooled it with water at the doctor's.

Who acts: boy, you, burn · What happens: believe, put, blister, cool · To what, where: myth, butter, burn, doctor

This is a sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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, you, burn), 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 believed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 myth	det
7	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believed	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 put	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 put	aux
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 myth	acl
12	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 burn	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 burn	det
15	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believed	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blistered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 blistered	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 burn	det
22	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blistered	nsubj
23	blistered	blister	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believed	conj
24	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 blistered	advmod
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 cooled	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cooled	nsubj
27	cooled	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 blistered	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cooled	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 water	case
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cooled	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 doctor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 doctor	det
33	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cooled	obl
34	's	's	PART	_	33 doctor	case
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past	a boy in Leeds	the myth			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myth=Stimulus
2	put	should	you	butter	a burn		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme on burn=Destination
3	blister	past	the burn			badly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	cool	past	burn	butter	the doctor	with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument

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:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:14.

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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