First aid, medicine and the sun, sentence 18
A toddler in the USA found his grandmother's pills in her handbag and swallowed some thinking they were sweets; he was rushed to hospital and had to stay overnight.
Who acts: toddler, pills · What happens: find, swallow, think, be, rush, have · To what, where: pills, handbag, some, sweets, toddler, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «First aid, medicine and the sun» 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 (toddler, pills), 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 toddler | det |
| 2 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 USA | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 USA | det |
| 5 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 toddler | nmod |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pills | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 grandmother | case |
| 10 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 handbag | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 handbag | nmod:poss |
| 13 | handbag | handbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swallowed | cc |
| 15 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 swallowed | obj |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 swallowed | advcl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sweets | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sweets | cop |
| 20 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thinking | ccomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 rushed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rushed | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rushed | aux:pass |
| 24 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hospital | case |
| 26 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rushed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rushed | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 stay | mark |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 30 stay | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a toddler in the USA | toddler's grandmother's pills | skin's handbag | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Topic | |||
| 2 | swallow | past | a toddler in the USA not said here | some | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | a toddler in the USA not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | pills = pill | sweets | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rush | past · passive | toddler | hospital | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to hospital=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | stay | to-infinitive | overnight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.lesson:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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