Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 7

A boy in California picked up a bat lying on the ground; it bit him, and he needed a series of injections to protect him from rabies.

Who acts: boy, bat, ground · What happens: pick up, lie, bite, need, protect · To what, where: bat, ground, boy, series

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from 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, bat, ground), 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 picked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 California	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 picked	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bat	det
8	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obj
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bat	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 him	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bit	nsubj
15	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 picked	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bit	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 needed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 needed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 needed	nsubj
20	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bit	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 series	det
22	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 needed	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 injections	case
24	injections	injection	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 series	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 protect	mark
26	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 needed	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 protect	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 rabies	case
29	rabies	rabies	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 protect	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 picked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	a boy in California	a bat				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Topic
2	lie	gerund	a bat not said here			the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	bite	past	ground	boy				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	need	past	boy	a series of injections				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot series=Theme
5	protect	to-infinitive	boy not said here		boy		from rabies	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from rabies=Theme

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:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:7.

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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