Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 14
In ice hockey, where players chase a puck (a flat rubber disc), the stick is kept below the shoulders, because a high stick can injure faces.
Who acts: players, high stick · What happens: chase, keep, injure · To what, where: puck, stick, ice hockey, faces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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 (players, high stick), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hockey | case |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hockey | compound |
| 3 | hockey | hockey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hockey | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 chase | advmod |
| 6 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chase | nsubj |
| 7 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hockey | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 puck | det |
| 9 | puck | puck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chase | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 disc | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 disc | det |
| 12 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 disc | amod |
| 13 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disc | compound |
| 14 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 puck | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 disc | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hockey | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stick | det |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kept | aux:pass |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | below | below | ADP | _ | 23 shoulders | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shoulders | det |
| 23 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kept | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 injure | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 injure | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stick | det |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stick | amod |
| 28 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 injure | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 injure | aux |
| 30 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kept | advcl |
| 31 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 injure | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | players | a puck | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present · passive | the stick | ice hockey | below the shoulders | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hockey=Location | |||
| 3 | injure | can | a high stick | faces | 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:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.lesson:14.
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): R6-punct-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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