Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 19
A baby in Ohio was given a toy marked «3+» by her big brother; she put a small piece in her mouth and choked, and their dad had to do back blows to save her.
Who acts: big brother, luck, dad · What happens: give, mark, put, choke, have, do · To what, where: baby, toy, small piece, mouth, back blows, luck
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 (big brother, luck, dad), 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 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 baby | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 toy | det |
| 8 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 9 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 toy | acl |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 3 | punct |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 marked | xcomp |
| 12 | + | + | SYM | _ | 11 3 | advmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 3 | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brother | amod |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl:agent |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 piece | amod |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 choked | cc |
| 28 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 had | cc |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 dad | nmod:poss |
| 32 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 had | xcomp |
| 36 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blows | compound |
| 37 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 do | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 save | mark |
| 39 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 do | advcl |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 save | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | luck's big brother | a baby in Ohio | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient toy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | participle | a toy not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put | past | luck | a small piece | luck's mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in mouth=Destination | |||
| 4 | choke | past | luck not said here | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have | past | pieces's dad | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | pieces's dad not said here | back blows | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | save | to-infinitive | pieces's dad not said here | luck | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:19.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/19/