Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 18

A boy in a museum in London climbed onto a statue's base for a photo; he slipped, cracked his head on the marble floor and needed stitches.

Who acts: boy · What happens: climb, slip, crack, need · To what, where: base, head, marble floor, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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), 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	8 climbed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 museum	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 museum	det
5	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 museum	nmod
8	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	13 base	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 statue	det
11	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 base	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 statue	case
13	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbed	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 photo	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 photo	det
16	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 slipped	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 slipped	nsubj
19	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climbed	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cracked	punct
21	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slipped	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cracked	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
26	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 floor	compound
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cracked	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 needed	cc
29	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slipped	conj
30	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 needed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 climbed	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	climb	past	a boy in a museum in London		a statue's base	for a photo	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto base=Trajectory
2	slip	past	boy				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	crack	past	boy not said here	boy's head	the marble floor		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
4	need	past	boy not said here	stitches			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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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