Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 17

A boy in Leeds threw his bat after losing a game; it hit a younger child in the face and broke her tooth.

Who acts: boy, game · What happens: throw, lose, hit, break · To what, where: bat, game, younger child, face, tooth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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, game), 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 threw	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bat	nmod:poss
7	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 losing	mark
9	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 threw	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 game	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 losing	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hit	nsubj
14	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
16	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hit	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 face	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 face	det
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hit	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 broke	cc
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hit	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tooth	nmod:poss
24	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw	past	a boy in Leeds	boy's bat		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme
2	lose	gerund	a boy in Leeds not said here	a game		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
3	hit	past	game	a younger child	the face	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent child=Theme in face=Destination
4	break	past	game not said here	Leeds's tooth		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient

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:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:17.

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. 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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