Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 4

A boy in Brisbane hears his toddler sister go quiet in the next room; he checks and finds her opening the remote control, and takes the battery away.

Who acts: boy, toddler sister · What happens: hear, go, check, find, open, take away · To what, where: next room, remote control, battery · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, toddler sister), 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 hears	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Brisbane	case
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
7	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sister	compound
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hears	ccomp
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 checks	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 checks	nsubj
17	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hears	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 finds	cc
19	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 checks	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 opening	nmod:poss
21	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 finds	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 control	det
23	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 control	amod
24	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opening	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 takes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 takes	cc
27	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 checks	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 battery	det
29	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 takes	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	27 takes	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hears	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	a boy in Brisbane				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	infinitive	boy's toddler sister		the next room	quiet property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location
3	check	present	boy				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	find	present	boy not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	open	gerund	boy not said here	the remote control			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location control=Theme
6	take away	present	boy not said here	the battery		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme

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:4.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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