Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 17

A toddler in Kentucky pulled on a kettle cord that hung over the counter; boiling water spilled on him and he had serious burns that needed weeks in hospital.

Who acts: toddler, kettle cord, boiling water, serious burns · What happens: pull on, hang, boil, spill, have, need · To what, where: kettle cord, counter, serious burns

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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, kettle cord, boiling water, serious burns), 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	5 pulled	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Kentucky	case
4	Kentucky	Kentucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 toddler	nmod
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 pulled	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cord	det
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cord	compound
9	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hung	nsubj
11	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cord	acl:relcl
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 counter	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 counter	det
14	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
16	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spilled	nsubj
18	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spilled	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spilled	conj
24	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 burns	amod
25	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 needed	nsubj
27	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 burns	acl:relcl
28	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 needed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 hospital	case
30	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 weeks	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull on	past	a toddler in Kentucky	a kettle cord				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme
2	hang	past	a kettle cord		the counter			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over counter=Location
3	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	spill	past	boiling water				on toddler	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
5	have	past	toddler	serious burns				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Patient
6	need	past	serious burns			week		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:17.

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 ×1, 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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