Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 18

A boy in England poked a knife into a toaster to free a stuck slice while it was still plugged in; he got an electric shock that threw him back, and he was lucky not to be killed.

Who acts: boy, electric shock · What happens: poke, free, plug in, get, throw back, be · To what, where: knife, stuck slice, slice, electric shock, boy

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 (boy, electric shock), 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 poked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 toaster	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 toaster	det
10	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 free	mark
12	free	free	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 poked	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 slice	det
14	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 slice	amod
15	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 free	obj
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 plugged	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 plugged	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 plugged	aux:pass
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 plugged	advmod
20	plugged	plug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 poked	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	20 plugged	compound:prt
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poked	parataxis
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shock	det
26	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shock	amod
27	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 threw	nsubj
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shock	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 threw	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lucky	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lucky	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lucky	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lucky	cop
36	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 got	conj
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 killed	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	40 killed	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 killed	aux:pass
40	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 lucky	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past	a boy in England	a knife		into a toaster	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Instrument into toaster=Patient
2	free	to-infinitive	a boy in England not said here	a stuck slice			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer slice=Source
3	plug in	past · passive		slice	still		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	get	past	boy	a electric shock			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus
5	throw back	past	a electric shock	boy			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	past	boy			lucky property	tree rules
7	not kill	to-infinitive · passive	boy not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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: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 ×1, 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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