Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 21

A boy in Wisconsin went down a slide with a drawstring hoodie on; the cord caught at the top and choked him, and an adult had to cut him free.

Who acts: boy, cord, adult · What happens: go down, catch, choke, have, cut · To what, where: slide, top, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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, cord, adult), 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 went	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Wisconsin	case
4	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slide	det
8	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 hoodie	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hoodie	det
11	drawstring	drawstring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hoodie	compound
12	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
13	on	on	ADV	_	12 hoodie	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cord	det
16	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	nsubj
17	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 choked	cc
22	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caught	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 choked	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 adult	det
27	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 choked	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cut	mark
30	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cut	obj
32	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cut	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	a boy in Wisconsin	a slide			with a drawstring hoodie; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient slide=Extent
2	catch	past	the cord			the top		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at top=Asset
3	choke	past	the cord not said here		boy			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
4	have	past	a adult					tree rules
5	cut	to-infinitive	a adult not said here	boy			free property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:21.

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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