Classroom rules and homework, sentence 20
A boy in Michigan kept leaning back on two legs of his chair; it slid out and he cracked the back of his head on the floor and had to go home with a concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head).
Who acts: boy, worksheet · What happens: keep, lean back, slide out, crack, have, go · To what, where: two legs, back, floor
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» 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, worksheet), 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 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Michigan | case |
| 4 | Michigan | Michigan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 leaning | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 legs | nummod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leaning | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chair | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 legs | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 slid | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slid | nsubj |
| 16 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 slid | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cracked | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cracked | nsubj |
| 20 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slid | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 back | det |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cracked | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 back | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 floor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 floor | det |
| 28 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cracked | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cracked | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 concussion | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 concussion | det |
| 36 | concussion | concussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 injury | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 injury | det |
| 39 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 injury | compound |
| 40 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 concussion | appos |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 knock | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 knock | det |
| 43 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 injury | nmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 head | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 head | det |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 knock | nmod |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 injury | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a boy in Michigan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lean back | gerund | a boy in Michigan not said here | two legs of boy's chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | ||||
| 3 | slide out | past | worksheet | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | crack | past | boy | the back of boy's head | the floor | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location back=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | past | boy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | boy not said here | with a concussion; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with concussion=Beneficiary |
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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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