Music practice and ball games, sentence 19

A boy in New York practised the drums for hours every day without ear protection; after a few months he had ringing in his ears that would not go away.

Who acts: boy, ears · What happens: practise, have, ring, not go away · To what, where: drums, ears

This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» 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, ears), 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	6 practised	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 York	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 York	flat
5	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drums	det
8	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 practised	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 hours	case
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 practised	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practised	obl:unmarked
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 protection	case
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 protection	compound
15	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practised	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
17	after	after	ADP	_	20 months	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 months	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 months	amod
20	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 practised	conj
23	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 had	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ears	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ears	nmod:poss
26	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ringing	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 go	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 go	advmod
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ears	acl:relcl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 practised	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	past	a boy in New York	the drums		day; hour	without ear protection	tree rules
2	have	past	boy			month		tree rules
3	ring	gerund	boy not said here		boy's ears			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
4	not go away	would	boy's ears				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:19.

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. 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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