Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 16

A small boy in London had his foot slip into the gap between the train and the platform; staff stopped the train and freed him, but his leg was bruised and he was very frightened.

Who acts: small boy, staff · What happens: have, stop, free, bruise, be · To what, where: foot slip, train, boy, leg

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» 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 (small boy, staff), 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	3 boy	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 London	case
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boy	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 foot	nmod:poss
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slip	compound
9	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 gap	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gap	det
12	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slip	obl
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 train	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 train	det
15	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gap	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 platform	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 platform	det
18	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 train	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stopped	punct
20	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stopped	nsubj
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 train	det
23	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stopped	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 freed	cc
25	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stopped	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 freed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bruised	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 bruised	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 leg	nmod:poss
30	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bruised	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bruised	aux:pass
32	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 freed	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 frightened	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 frightened	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 frightened	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 frightened	advmod
37	frightened	frighten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bruised	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a small boy in London	foot slip		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Patient
2	stop	past	staff	the train		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality train=Eventuality
3	free	past	staff not said here	boy		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source
4	bruise	past · passive		boy's leg		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	is	past · passive		boy	frighten property	tree rules

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:270-trains-and-subways.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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