Sharing toys and playing board games fairly, sentence 24

Two brothers in New Zealand fought over a board game; one threw the board, its corner caught the other above the eye, and he needed stitches.

Who acts: Two brothers, one, corner · What happens: fight, throw, catch, need · To what, where: board, other, eye, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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 (Two brothers, one, corner), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brothers	nummod
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fought	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	_	5 Zealand	compound
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brothers	nmod
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 game	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 game	det
9	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 game	compound
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fought	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fought	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 board	det
15	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 corner	nmod:poss
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	nsubj
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threw	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 caught	obj
22	above	above	ADP	_	24 eye	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eye	det
24	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 needed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 needed	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 needed	nsubj
28	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fought	conj
29	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 needed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fought	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Two brothers in New Zealand			over a board game	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over game=Theme
2	throw	past	one	the board			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme
3	catch	past	board's corner	the other	the eye		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
4	need	past	corner	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:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:24.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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