Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, sentence 7

He remembers the rule, sits by a big tree and blows his whistle three times every few minutes.

Who acts: boy · What happens: remember, sit, blow, whistle · To what, where: rule, whistle

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembers	nsubj
2	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembers	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sits	punct
6	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remembers	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blows	cc
12	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remembers	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 whistle	nmod:poss
14	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blows	obj
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 times	nummod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 blows	obl:unmarked
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 minutes	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 minutes	amod
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 blows	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembers	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	boy	the rule			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
2	sit	present	boy not said here			by a big tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location
3	blow	present	boy not said here	boy's whistle	minute; time		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
4	whistle		boy				nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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:7.

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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