Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 20
A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.
Who acts: cricket ball, close fielders · What happens: be, break, wear · To what, where: bones, helmets
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 (cricket ball, close fielders), 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 | 5 ball | det |
| 2 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | compound |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 hockey | cc |
| 4 | hockey | hockey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cricket | conj |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enough | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enough | cop |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 enough | advmod |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 break | mark |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 enough | advcl |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 break | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wear | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 wear | advmod |
| 14 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fielders | amod |
| 15 | fielders | fielder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wear | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 goalies | cc |
| 17 | goalies | goalie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fielders | conj |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enough | parataxis |
| 19 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wear | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pads | cc |
| 21 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 helmets | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a cricket ball | enough, hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | to-infinitive | a cricket ball not said here | bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wear | present | close fielders and goalies | helmets and pads | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=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:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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