Building and making things safely, sentence 27
A girl in England called Ruby built a den roof from old planks and stood on it; it gave way, she fell two metres and broke her wrist.
Who acts: girl, roof · What happens: call, build, stand, give, fall, break · To what, where: Ruby, den roof, old planks, roof, way, two metres · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, roof), 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 | 7 built | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 girl | acl |
| 6 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 9 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roof | compound |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 planks | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 planks | amod |
| 13 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | conj |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | parataxis |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 metres | nummod |
| 26 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fell | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 broke | cc |
| 28 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fell | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 broke | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | a girl in England not said here | Ruby | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ruby=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | build | past | a girl in England | a den roof | old planks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent roof=Product from plank=Material | |||
| 3 | stand | past | a girl in England not said here | roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past | roof | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | girl | two metres | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | break | past | girl not said here | girl's wrist | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient |
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:27.
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 ×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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