Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing, sentence 19

A boy in Michigan went ice fishing alone on early winter ice; it cracked under him and he only got out because a man nearby heard him shout.

Who acts: boy, ice, man · What happens: go, fish, crack, get out, hear, shout · To what, where: ice, early winter ice, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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, ice, man), 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 went	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Michigan	case
4	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
7	fishing	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ice	acl
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 ice	case
10	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ice	amod
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ice	compound
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 cracked	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cracked	nsubj
15	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cracked	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cracked	conj
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 heard	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	nsubj
26	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	25 man	advmod
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	obj
29	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 heard	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	a boy in Michigan	ice	early winter ice	alone property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ice=Theme
2	fish	gerund	ice not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crack	past	Ice			under boy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location
4	get out	past	boy			out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	a man	boy			tree rules
6	shout speech: express	infinitive	boy not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:19.

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 ×4, R7-rel-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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