Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 6
Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, because hard shots hit them.
Who acts: Fielders, hard shots · What happens: wear, stand, hit · To what, where: helmet
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 (Fielders, hard shots), 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 | Fielders | fielder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fielders | amod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 batter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 batter | det |
| 5 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 close | obl |
| 6 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 helmet | det |
| 8 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wear | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 stand | cc |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wear | conj |
| 11 | further | further | ADV | _ | 12 back | advmod |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 stand | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hit | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 hit | mark |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shots | amod |
| 16 | shots | shot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hit | nsubj |
| 17 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hit | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | Fielders | a helmet | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | Fielders not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hit | past | hard shots | helmet | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:6.
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): 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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