In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 21
A boy in Alabama took off his seat belt for a short drive to the shop; when the car braked hard he was thrown into the seat in front and broke his nose and two teeth.
Who acts: boy, car · What happens: take off, brake, throw, break · To what, where: seat belt, boy, seat, nose
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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, car), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Alabama | case |
| 4 | Alabama | Alabama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 belt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belt | compound |
| 9 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 drive | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drive | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drive | amod |
| 13 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shop | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shop | det |
| 16 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drive | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 braked | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 braked | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 car | det |
| 20 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 braked | nsubj |
| 21 | braked | brake | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thrown | advcl |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 braked | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thrown | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thrown | aux:pass |
| 25 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | parataxis |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 seat | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 seat | det |
| 28 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thrown | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 front | case |
| 30 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seat | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 broke | cc |
| 32 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thrown | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 nose | nmod:poss |
| 34 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 broke | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 teeth | cc |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 teeth | nummod |
| 37 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 nose | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | 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 | take off | past | a boy in Alabama | boy's seat belt | for a short drive to the shop | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Theme | |||
| 2 | brake | past | the car | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | past · passive | boy | into the seat in front result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into seat=Result | ||||
| 4 | break | past | boy's nose and two teeth | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=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:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:21.
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 ×2, 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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