Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 8
His fingers go white and numb, so he goes in, takes off the wet gloves and warms his hands slowly, and tells his mum.
Who acts: fingers, boy · What happens: go, go in, take off, warm, tell · To what, where: wet gloves, hands, mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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 (fingers, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 numb | cc |
| 6 | numb | numb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 white | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 takes | punct |
| 13 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 goes | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 takes | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gloves | det |
| 16 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gloves | amod |
| 17 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 takes | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 warms | cc |
| 19 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 goes | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 warms | obj |
| 22 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 19 warms | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tells | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tells | cc |
| 25 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mum | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tells | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | boy's fingers | white property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | present | boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take off | present | boy not said here | the wet gloves | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme | ||||
| 4 | warm | present | boy not said here | boy's hands | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | boy's fingers not said here | boy's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
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:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:8.
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, 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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