Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 5

A boy in Manchester tried to lift a full box of books by bending his back with straight legs; something pulled in his lower back and he could not play football for weeks.

Who acts: boy, something · What happens: try, lift, bend, pull, not play · To what, where: full box, back, lower back, football

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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, something), 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 tried	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Manchester	case
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lift	mark
7	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 box	det
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 box	amod
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lift	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 books	case
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 box	nmod
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 bending	mark
14	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lift	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bending	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 legs	case
18	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 legs	amod
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bending	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 something	punct
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 pulled	nsubj
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 back	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 back	nmod:poss
25	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 back	amod
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pulled	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 play	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 play	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 play	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 play	advmod
31	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	conj
32	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 play	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 weeks	case
34	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 play	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	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	try	past	a boy in Manchester					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lift not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Manchester not said here	a full box of books				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
3	bend	gerund	a boy in Manchester not said here	boy's back			with straight legs	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent back=Patient with leg=Instrument
4	pull	past	something		boy's lower back			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not play	could	boy	football		week		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme

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:003-lifting-and-carrying.lesson:5.

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. 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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