Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, sentence 23

A boy in Colorado left the trail in the woods to follow a deer; he got lost, and it took searchers all night to find him cold and frightened.

Who acts: boy, it · What happens: leave, follow, lose, take, find, frighten · To what, where: trail, woods, deer, boy, searchers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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, 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Colorado	case
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trail	det
7	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 woods	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 follow	mark
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deer	det
14	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 follow	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lost	nsubj
17	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lost	aux:pass
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 follow	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
23	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 night	det
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl:unmarked
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 took	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	obj
29	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 find	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 frightened	cc
31	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 cold	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	a boy in Colorado	the trail	the woods			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trail=Theme in wood=Location
2	follow	to-infinitive	a boy in Colorado not said here	a deer				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
3	lose	past · passive		boy				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	take	past	it	searchers		night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent searcher=Theme
5	find	to-infinitive		boy			cold property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	frighten	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.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 ×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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