Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight, sentence 24
A girl in Texas put butter on a burn from a hot pan, as an old saying wrongly tells people to; the burn stayed hot and got worse, and it took weeks to heal.
Who acts: girl, old saying, burn, it · What happens: put, tell, stay, get, take, heal · To what, where: butter, burn, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» 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 (girl, old saying, burn, it), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 burn | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 burn | det |
| 9 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 pan | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pan | det |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pan | amod |
| 13 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 people | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 tells | mark |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 saying | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saying | amod |
| 18 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tells | nsubj |
| 19 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 20 tells | advmod |
| 20 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | advcl |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tells | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tells | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 stayed | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 burn | det |
| 25 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stayed | nsubj |
| 26 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 27 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stayed | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 got | cc |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stayed | conj |
| 30 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 got | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 took | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | nsubj |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stayed | conj |
| 35 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 took | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 heal | mark |
| 37 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 took | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | a girl in Texas | butter | a burn | from a hot pan | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme on burn=Destination | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | a old saying | people | wrongly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | |||
| 3 | stay | past | the burn | hot property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | the burn not said here | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | take | past | it | week | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | heal | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up.lesson:24.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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