Balance and falling well, sentence 6

A boy in Texas stood on a wobbly chair on top of a table to reach a shelf; the chair tipped, he fell onto the hard floor and needed stitches in his chin.

Who acts: boy, chair · What happens: stand, reach, tip, fall, need · To what, where: wobbly chair, shelf, hard floor, stitches, chin

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 (boy, chair), 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 stood	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 chair	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chair	det
8	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chair	amod
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 top	case
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chair	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reach	mark
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stood	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shelf	det
18	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reach	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chair	det
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tipped	nsubj
22	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
26	onto	onto	ADP	_	29 floor	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 floor	det
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 floor	amod
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 needed	cc
31	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fell	conj
32	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 needed	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 chin	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 chin	nmod:poss
35	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 needed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	a boy in Texas		a wobbly chair on top of a table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
2	reach	to-infinitive	a boy in Texas not said here	a shelf		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme
3	tip	past	the chair			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	boy		the hard floor	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto floor=Initial_Location
5	need	past	boy not said here	stitches	boy's chin	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:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:6.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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