Building and making things safely, sentence 26

A boy in Ohio used his dad's power drill without asking; it jumped off a screw and went into his hand, and he needed surgery.

Who acts: boy, power drill, drill · What happens: use, ask, jump off, go, need · To what, where: power drill, screw, hand, surgery

This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» 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, power drill, drill), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drill	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dad	case
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drill	compound
10	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 asking	mark
12	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 drill	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 jumped	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 jumped	nsubj
15	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	parataxis
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 screw	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 screw	det
18	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jumped	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 jumped	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 hand	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 needed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 needed	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 needed	nsubj
27	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	conj
28	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	past	a boy in Ohio	boy's dad's power drill		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drill=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	boy's dad's power drill not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	jump off	past	drill	a screw		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme screw=Trajectory
4	go	past	drill not said here		boy's hand	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial_Location
5	need	past	boy	surgery		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:26.

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): no change. 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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