Balance and falling well, sentence 21

Putting a straight, stiff arm out to stop a fall is one of the most common ways children break a wrist.

Who acts: Putting, children · What happens: put, stop, be, break · To what, where: straight stiff arm, fall, one, wrist

This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» 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 (Putting, children), 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	Putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 one	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 arm	det
3	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stiff	punct
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 arm	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Putting	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fall	det
11	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	cop
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 ways	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ways	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 common	advmod
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ways	amod
18	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 break	nsubj
20	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ways	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wrist	det
22	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 break	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	gerund		a straight stiff arm		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
2	stop	to-infinitive		a fall		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fall=Eventuality
3	is a	present	Putting	one	of the common ways	tree rules
4	break	present	children	a wrist		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient

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:002-balance-and-falling-well.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): R5-strong ×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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