Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 7

He sits by a big pine, blows his whistle three times, waits, and his dad finds him within minutes.

Who acts: boy, dad · What happens: sit, blow, wait, find, whistle · To what, where: whistle, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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, dad), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 pine	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pine	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pine	amod
6	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blows	punct
8	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 whistle	nmod:poss
10	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blows	obj
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blows	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 waits	punct
14	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 finds	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 finds	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dad	nmod:poss
18	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finds	nsubj
19	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 finds	obj
21	within	within	ADP	_	22 minutes	case
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 finds	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	boy			by a big pine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pine=Location
2	blow	present	boy not said here	boy's whistle	time		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
3	wait	present	boy not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	present	boy's dad	boy	minute		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
5	whistle		boy				nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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