Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 23

A boy in Colorado slammed his bedroom door in anger; his little sister's fingers were in the hinge side, and she needed hospital and a splint.

Who acts: boy, fingers, news · What happens: slam, be, need · To what, where: bedroom door, anger, hinge side, hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» 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, fingers, news), 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 slammed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Colorado	case
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 door	nmod:poss
7	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	compound
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slammed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 anger	case
10	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slammed	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 side	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sister	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sister	amod
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fingers	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 sister	case
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 side	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 side	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 side	compound
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slammed	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 needed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 needed	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 needed	nsubj
25	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slammed	conj
26	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needed	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 splint	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 splint	det
29	splint	splint	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hospital	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slammed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	slam	past	a boy in Colorado	boy's bedroom door	anger	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Patient in anger=Location
2	is	past	boy's little sister's fingers		the hinge side	tree rules
3	need	past	news	hospital and a splint		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hospital=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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:23.

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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