Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 16
Never pull a chair away as someone sits; they can fall and badly hurt their back or head.
Who acts: you, someone, feelings · What happens: not pull away, sit, fall, hurt · To what, where: chair, back
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» 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 (you, someone, feelings), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 pull | advmod |
| 2 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chair | det |
| 4 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pull | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 pull | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 sits | mark |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 sits | nsubj |
| 8 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pull | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fall | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fall | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fall | aux |
| 12 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pull | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | cc |
| 14 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fall | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hurt | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 head | cc |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pull away | imperative | you not said here | a chair | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | present | someone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | can | feelings = feeling | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hurt | infinitive | feelings = feeling not said here | feelings's back or head | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=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:204-pranks.lesson:16.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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