Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 7
A boy in Arizona put on a boot left outside overnight without shaking it; a scorpion inside stung his foot, and it hurt for hours.
Who acts: boy, scorpion, venom · What happens: put, leave, shake, sting, hurt · To what, where: boot, venom, foot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» 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, scorpion, venom), 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 put | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Arizona | case |
| 4 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 boot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boot | det |
| 8 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 boot | acl |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 left | advmod |
| 11 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 9 left | advmod |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 shaking | mark |
| 13 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 left | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shaking | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stung | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scorpion | det |
| 17 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stung | nsubj |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 scorpion | advmod |
| 19 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 foot | nmod:poss |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stung | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hurt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hurt | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hurt | nsubj |
| 25 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stung | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 hours | case |
| 27 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hurt | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | a boy in Arizona | a boot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on boot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a boot not said here | outside, overnight property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | venom | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sting | past | a scorpion | boy's foot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | hurt | past | venom | hour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:7.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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