Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 21

A girl in the UK picked up a shiny thing on the beach that turned out to be a sharp piece of metal; she cut her hand deeply and needed stitches.

Who acts: girl, shiny thing · What happens: pick up, turn out, be, cut, need · To what, where: shiny thing, beach, sharp piece, hand, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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 (girl, shiny thing), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 UK	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 UK	det
5	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
6	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 picked	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 beach	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beach	det
13	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 turned	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	21 piece	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 piece	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 piece	det
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 piece	amod
21	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 metal	case
23	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 piece	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
26	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obj
29	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	26 cut	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 needed	cc
31	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	conj
32	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 needed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 picked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	a girl in the UK	a shiny thing	the beach		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	turn out	past	a shiny thing				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	a shiny thing not said here	a sharp piece		of metal	tree rules
4	cut	past	girl	girl's hand		deeply property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Product
5	need	past	girl 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:238-bites-and-things-you-find.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): 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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