Anger and fears, sentence 18

A boy in Birmingham lost his temper and threw a heavy toy at his brother; it hit him by the eye and he needed stitches, and the boy felt terrible for weeks.

Who acts: boy, toy · What happens: lose, throw, hit, need, feel, temper · To what, where: temper, heavy toy, boy, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» 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, toy), 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 lost	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Birmingham	case
4	Birmingham	Birmingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 temper	nmod:poss
7	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 toy	det
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 toy	amod
12	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 brother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 hit	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hit	nsubj
18	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hit	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 eye	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eye	det
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hit	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 needed	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 needed	nsubj
25	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hit	conj
26	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 needed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 felt	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 felt	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boy	det
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 felt	nsubj
31	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	conj
32	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 felt	xcomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 weeks	case
34	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 felt	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	a boy in Birmingham	boy's temper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	throw	past	a boy in Birmingham not said here	a heavy toy		at boy's brother	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent toy=Theme at brother=Destination
3	hit	past	toy	boy		by the eye	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme by eye=Destination
4	need	past	boy	stitches			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme
5	feel	past	the boy		week	terrible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	temper		boy				nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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:212-anger-and-fears.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): 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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