Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies, sentence 22

A boy in Ohio reached into a blender to unstick a strawberry while it was still plugged in; it switched on and cut his fingers badly.

Who acts: boy, strawberry · What happens: reach, unstick, plug in, switch on, cut · To what, where: blender, strawberry, fingers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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, strawberry), 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 reached	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 blender	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blender	det
8	blender	blender	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 unstick	mark
10	unstick	unstick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reached	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 strawberry	det
12	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unstick	obj
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 plugged	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 plugged	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 plugged	aux:pass
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 plugged	advmod
17	plugged	plug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 unstick	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 plugged	compound:prt
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 switched	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 switched	nsubj
21	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 switched	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cut	cc
24	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 switched	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fingers	nmod:poss
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cut	obj
27	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 cut	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	a boy in Ohio		a blender			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into blender=Path
2	unstick	to-infinitive	a boy in Ohio not said here	a strawberry				tree rules
3	plug in	past · passive		strawberry		still		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	switch on	past	strawberry					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	cut	past	strawberry not said here	boy's fingers			badly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=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:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:22.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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