Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 18

Children pushing to be first off a school bus in Texas knocked a small boy down the steps; he broke his wrist.

Who acts: Children, boy · What happens: push, be, knock, break · To what, where: small boy, wrist

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 (Children, boy), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knocked	nsubj
2	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Children	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	5 first	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 first	cop
5	first	first	ADJ	NumType=Ord	2 pushing	xcomp
6	off	off	PART	_	5 first	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bus	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bus	compound
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 first	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Texas	case
11	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bus	nmod
12	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knocked	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 steps	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 steps	det
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knocked	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 broke	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broke	nsubj
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knocked	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wrist	nmod:poss
23	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	Children not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	Children not said here		a school bus in Texas obl; first property	tree rules
3	knock	past	Children	a small boy	down the steps	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
4	break	past	boy	boy's wrist		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient

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: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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