Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles, sentence 17

A boy in Texas ran across the classroom holding open scissors; he tripped and the blade went into his leg, and he needed stitches.

Who acts: boy, blade · What happens: run, hold, trip, go, need · To what, where: classroom, open scissors, leg, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» 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, blade), 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 ran	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 classroom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 classroom	det
8	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
9	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ran	advcl
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scissors	amod
11	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holding	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tripped	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tripped	nsubj
14	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 blade	det
17	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tripped	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 leg	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 leg	nmod:poss
21	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 needed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 needed	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 needed	nsubj
25	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
26	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 needed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	past	a boy in Texas		the classroom	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across classroom=Trajectory
2	hold	gerund	a boy in Texas not said here	open scissors		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme
3	trip	past	boy			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	the blade		blade's leg	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into leg=Initial_Location
5	need	past	boy	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:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.lesson:17.

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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