Being gentle with small animals, sentence 20
A boy in Ireland lifted a guinea pig while standing up; it wriggled free, fell, and broke its back leg, and the vet bill was huge.
Who acts: boy, pig, vet bill · What happens: lift, stand up, wriggle, fall, break, be · To what, where: guinea pig, back leg
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small animals» 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, pig, vet bill), 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 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 7 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pig | compound |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 standing | mark |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 lifted | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 standing | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wriggled | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wriggled | nsubj |
| 14 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | parataxis |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wriggled | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wriggled | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 broke | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 broke | cc |
| 20 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leg | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leg | amod |
| 23 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 broke | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 huge | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 huge | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bill | det |
| 27 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bill | compound |
| 28 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 huge | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 huge | cop |
| 30 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lifted | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | 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 | lift | past | a boy in Ireland | a guinea pig | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand up | gerund | a boy in Ireland not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wriggle | past | pig | free property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | pig not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | break | past | a boy in Ireland not said here | pig's back leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the vet bill | huge 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:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:20.
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): 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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