Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 24

A girl in Australia stood by the window to watch a storm; lightning struck a tree outside and the window shattered, cutting her arm.

Who acts: girl, lightning, window · What happens: stand, watch, strike, shatter, cut · To what, where: storm, tree, arm

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 (girl, lightning, window), 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 stood	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stood	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watch	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 struck	punct
14	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 struck	nsubj
15	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 struck	obj
18	outside	outside	ADV	_	17 tree	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shattered	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shattered	nsubj
22	shattered	shatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 struck	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cutting	punct
24	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 shattered	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arm	nmod:poss
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a girl in Australia		by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	watch	to-infinitive	a girl in Australia not said here	a storm		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme
3	strike	past	lightning	a tree		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
4	shatter	past	the window			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	cut	gerund	the window not said here	lightning's arm		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arm=Product

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: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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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