Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 17
A boy in Leeds pushed ahead in the lunch queue and shoved a girl holding hot soup; it spilled on her arm and she was burned.
Who acts: Leeds, boy, girl, soup · What happens: push, shove, hold, spill, burn · To what, where: lunch queue, girl, hot soup, arm
This is a sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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 (Leeds, boy, girl, soup), 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 | 12 shoved | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Leeds | acl |
| 6 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 5 pushed | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 queue | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queue | det |
| 9 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 queue | compound |
| 10 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shoved | cc |
| 12 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shoved | obj |
| 15 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 girl | acl |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soup | amod |
| 17 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holding | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 spilled | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spilled | nsubj |
| 20 | spilled | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shoved | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 arm | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arm | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spilled | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 burned | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 burned | aux:pass |
| 27 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 spilled | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shoved | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Leeds not said here | the lunch queue | ahead property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in queue=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shove | past | a boy in Leeds | a girl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | a girl not said here | hot soup | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spill | past | soup | girl's arm | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location | ||||
| 5 | burn | past · passive | girl | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.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): no change. 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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