Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 18

A boy in Colorado set off on a hike at three in the afternoon in winter; darkness came at five, he lost the trail and had to be found by a rescue team.

Who acts: boy, darkness, rescue team · What happens: set off, come, lose, have, find · To what, where: hike, five, trail

This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the 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, darkness, rescue team), 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	24 lost	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Colorado	case
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 boy	acl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hike	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hike	det
9	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 three	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 set	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 afternoon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 afternoon	det
14	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 three	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 five	case
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lost	nsubj
24	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trail	det
26	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 found	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux:pass
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 had	xcomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 team	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 team	det
34	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 team	compound
35	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl:agent
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 lost	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	infinitive	a boy in Colorado not said here		a hike	winter	at three in the afternoon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	darkness		five			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at five=Location
3	lose	past	a boy in Colorado	the trail				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Eventuality
4	have	past	a boy in Colorado not said here					tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive · passive	a rescue team					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:18.

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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