Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 0

Even something small dropped from a balcony falls fast and can badly hurt a person below, so nothing is ever thrown or dropped from a height.

Who acts: something · What happens: drop, fall, hurt, throw · To what, where: balcony, person, nothing, height

This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 (something), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 something	advmod
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 falls	nsubj
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 something	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 balcony	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 balcony	det
7	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 falls	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hurt	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hurt	aux
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 hurt	advmod
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 falls	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hurt	obj
16	below	below	ADV	_	15 person	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thrown	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 thrown	advmod
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 thrown	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thrown	aux:pass
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 thrown	advmod
22	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 falls	parataxis
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 dropped	cc
24	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 thrown	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 height	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 height	det
27	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dropped	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 falls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	participle			a balcony			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from balcony=Trajectory
2	fall	present	something				fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hurt	can	something not said here	a person			badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient
4	throw	present · passive		nothing		ever		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	drop	participle			a height			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from height=Trajectory

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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:0.

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 ×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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