Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 4
A boy in Wellington hears the earthquake drill signal, drops under his desk, covers his head and holds on to the desk leg until his teacher says it is over.
Who acts: boy, teacher · What happens: hear, drop, cover, hold on, say, be · To what, where: drill signal, desk, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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, teacher), 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 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Wellington | case |
| 4 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 signal | det |
| 7 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drill | compound |
| 8 | drill | drill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 signal | compound |
| 9 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drops | punct |
| 11 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | conj |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 desk | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 desk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drops | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 covers | punct |
| 16 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covers | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 holds | cc |
| 20 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 holds | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 leg | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 leg | det |
| 24 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leg | compound |
| 25 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holds | obl |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 says | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 28 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 says | nsubj |
| 29 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 holds | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 over | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 over | cop |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 29 says | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a boy in Wellington | the drill signal | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer signal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drop | present | a boy in Wellington not said here | boy's desk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under desk=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cover | present | a boy in Wellington not said here | boy's head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hold on | present | a boy in Wellington not said here | to the desk leg | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | boy's teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | teacher | over property | tree rules |
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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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