Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 17

A toddler in New York climbed onto a chair by an open window; she fell from the second floor and was badly hurt, which is why window guards are now law in many flats there.

Who acts: toddler, window guards · What happens: climb, fall, hurt, be · To what, where: chair, second floor, law, many flats

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 (toddler, window guards), 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	6 climbed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 York	case
4	New	New	PROPN	_	5 York	flat
5	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 toddler	nmod
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 chair	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chair	det
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 window	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 window	det
12	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 window	amod
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climbed	parataxis
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 floor	amod
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hurt	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hurt	aux:pass
23	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 hurt	advmod
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fell	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 why	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 why	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 why	cop
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 hurt	conj
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 guards	compound
30	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 law	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 law	cop
32	now	now	ADV	_	33 law	advmod
33	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 why	ccomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 flats	case
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 flats	amod
36	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 law	obl
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 flats	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	a toddler in New York		a chair		by a open window	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chair=Trajectory
2	fall	past	toddler		the second floor			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from floor=Initial_Location
3	hurt	past · passive	toddler not said here				badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	is	present					why property	tree rules
5	is a	present	window guards	law	many flats	now		tree rules

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: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): 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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