Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 9
He does not touch it, puts his bag next to it to mark the spot and runs to tell his mum, who calls the council to remove it safely.
Who acts: boy, mum · What happens: not touch, put, mark, run, tell, call · To what, where: syringe, bag, spot, mum, council · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, mum), 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 | 4 touch | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 touch | advmod |
| 4 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 puts | punct |
| 7 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puts | obj |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 7 puts | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 puts | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mark | mark |
| 14 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 puts | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spot | det |
| 16 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mark | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 runs | cc |
| 18 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 puts | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 runs | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mum | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 calls | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 calls | nsubj |
| 25 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 mum | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 council | det |
| 27 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 calls | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 remove | mark |
| 29 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 calls | xcomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 remove | obj |
| 31 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 29 remove | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | 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 | not touch | present · do-support | boy | syringe | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | present | boy not said here | boy's bag | syringe | next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bag=Goal | ||
| 3 | mark | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the spot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent spot=Destination | ||||
| 4 | run | present | boy not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | boy not said here | boy's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | call | present | boy's mum | the council | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | remove | to-infinitive | boy's mum not said here | syringe | safely property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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