Finding your way with landmarks, sentence 5
A boy in Yorkshire took a short cut through a wood without looking at where he was going; he got lost and wandered for hours before a search team found him cold and frightened.
Who acts: boy, search team · What happens: take, look, go, lose, wander, find · To what, where: short cut, wood, boy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding your way with landmarks» 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, search team), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Yorkshire | case |
| 4 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cut | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cut | amod |
| 8 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 looking | mark |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 where | case |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 where | advcl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wandered | cc |
| 24 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 hours | case |
| 26 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wandered | obl |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 found | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 team | det |
| 29 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 team | compound |
| 30 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 found | nsubj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wandered | advcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | obj |
| 33 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 found | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 frightened | cc |
| 35 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cold | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a boy in Yorkshire | a short cut | a wood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | a boy in Yorkshire not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at where=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | boy | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | wander | past | hour | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find | past | a search team | boy | cold property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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:016-landmarks.lesson:5.
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): 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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