Routines, screen time and earning money, sentence 16

A boy in Ohio called Josh watched his tablet until midnight every school night; he started falling asleep in class and his marks dropped a whole grade.

Who acts: boy, marks · What happens: call, watch, start, fall, drop, mark · To what, where: boy, Josh, tablet, class, whole grade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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, marks), 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	7 watched	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boy	acl
6	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	obj
7	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tablet	nmod:poss
9	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	obj
10	until	until	ADP	_	11 midnight	case
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
13	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	compound
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	obl:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 started	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 started	nsubj
17	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watched	conj
18	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 started	xcomp
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 falling	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 class	case
21	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 falling	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dropped	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 marks	nmod:poss
24	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dropped	nsubj
25	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 started	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 grade	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grade	amod
28	grade	grade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dropped	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 watched	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a boy in Ohio not said here	Josh				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent josh=Recipient
2	watch	past	a boy in Ohio	boy's tablet			midnight; night		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme
3	start	past	boy						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fall	gerund	boy not said here			class		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location
5	drop	past	boy's marks	a whole grade					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grade=Theme
6	mark		boy						nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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:264-routines-screens-and-earning.lesson:16.

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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