Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 21
A toddler in Canada found his grandad's pills in a handbag and thought they were sweets; he swallowed several and had to stay in hospital for two days.
Who acts: toddler, pills · What happens: find, think, be, swallow, have, stay · To what, where: pills, handbag, sweets, several, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 (toddler, pills), 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 toddler | det |
| 2 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Canada | case |
| 4 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 toddler | nmod |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 toddler | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pills | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 grandad | case |
| 9 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 handbag | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 handbag | det |
| 12 | handbag | handbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sweets | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sweets | cop |
| 17 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 toddler | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 swallowed | nsubj |
| 20 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 swallowed | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 swallowed | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stay | mark |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hospital | case |
| 27 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stay | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 days | case |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 days | nummod |
| 30 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stay | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a toddler in Canada not said here | Canada's grandad's pills | a handbag | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Topic | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a toddler in Canada not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | pills = pill | sweets | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swallow | past | a toddler in Canada | several | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | a toddler in Canada not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stay | to-infinitive | a toddler in Canada not said here | hospital | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hospital=Location |
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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:21.
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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