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 | to whom | where | 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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