Holidays of the region, sentence 17

A boy in Florida held a lit sparkler and waved it near his sister's dress on the Fourth of July; the dress caught fire, and she had burns on her leg.

Who acts: boy, dress, Florida · What happens: hold, wave, catch, have · To what, where: lit sparkler, family, dress, fire, burns, leg

This is a sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» 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, dress, Florida), 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 held	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sparkler	det
7	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sparkler	amod
8	sparkler	sparkler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waved	cc
10	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 held	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 waved	obj
12	near	near	ADP	_	16 dress	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sister	nmod:poss
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dress	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 sister	case
16	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waved	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 Fourth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fourth	det
19	Fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waved	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 July	case
21	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Fourth	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 caught	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dress	det
24	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	nsubj
25	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 held	parataxis
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	conj
31	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 leg	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 leg	nmod:poss
34	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	a boy in Florida	a lit sparkler			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparkler=Theme
2	wave	past	a boy in Florida not said here	family	boy's sister's dress	on the Fourth of July	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	catch	past	the dress	fire			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
4	have	past	Florida	burns	Florida's leg		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Patient

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:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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