Running games and the playground, sentence 18

A boy in Texas ran backwards in a game of tag and hit a metal pole; he got a concussion (a brain injury from a hard knock to the head) and was sick and dizzy for days.

Who acts: boy · What happens: run, hit, get, be · To what, where: game, metal pole, concussion

This is a sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» 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), 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	backwards	backward	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 game	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 tag	case
11	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 game	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hit	cc
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pole	det
15	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pole	compound
16	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 got	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 concussion	det
21	concussion	concussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 injury	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 injury	det
24	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 injury	compound
25	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 concussion	appos
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 knock	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 knock	det
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 knock	amod
29	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 injury	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 head	det
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knock	nmod
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 injury	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sick	cc
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sick	cop
36	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 got	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dizzy	cc
38	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sick	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 days	case
40	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sick	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	a boy in Texas		a game of tag		backward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Trajectory
2	hit	past	a boy in Texas not said here	a metal pole				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pole=Co-Theme
3	get	past	boy	a concussion				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer concussion=Stimulus
4	is	past	boy not said here			day	sick property	tree rules
5	be		boy not said here					tree rules

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:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:18.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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