Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 27
A boy in Florida pulled a chair away as his friend sat down; the friend hit his head on the floor, was knocked out for a moment and had to go to hospital.
Who acts: boy, friend · What happens: pull away, sit down, hit, knock out, have, go · To what, where: chair, head, hospital
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 (boy, friend), 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 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chair | det |
| 7 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 pulled | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 sat | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 sat | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hit | nsubj |
| 17 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sat | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hit | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hit | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knocked | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 knocked | aux:pass |
| 25 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hit | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 knocked | compound:prt |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 moment | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 moment | det |
| 29 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knocked | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 had | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 hospital | case |
| 35 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 go | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull away | past | a boy in Florida | a chair | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | boy's friend | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hit | past | the friend | boy's head | on the floor | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on floor=Patient | |||
| 4 | knock out | past · passive | the friend not said here | moment | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» | ||||
| 5 | have | past | a boy in Florida not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | a boy in Florida not said here | hospital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location |
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:27.
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 ×2. 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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