Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 4

A girl in Vermont plays on the icy playground: she walks carefully, throws soft snowballs at nobody's face, and when the bell rings she stops at once and lines up.

Who acts: girl, bell · What happens: play, walk, throw, ring, stop, line up · To what, where: icy playground, soft snowballs, face

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 (girl, bell), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plays	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Vermont	case
4	Vermont	Vermont	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 playground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 playground	det
8	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 playground	amod
9	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plays	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 plays	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walks	nsubj
12	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plays	parataxis
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	12 walks	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 throws	punct
15	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 walks	conj
16	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snowballs	amod
17	snowballs	snowball	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 throws	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 face	case
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 face	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 nobody	case
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throws	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stops	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stops	cc
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 rings	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bell	det
26	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rings	nsubj
27	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 stops	advcl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stops	nsubj
29	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 walks	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	_	29 stops	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lines	cc
33	lines	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 stops	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 lines	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	a girl in Vermont		the icy playground		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	present	girl			carefully property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	present	girl not said here	soft snowballs	nobody's face		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent snowball=Theme at face=Destination
4	ring	present	the bell				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stop	present	girl				vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
6	line up	present	girl not said here				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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): R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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