Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 20
A toddler in Australia got his neck caught in a toy's long cord while playing alone; his mum found him just in time.
Who acts: toddler, neck, long cord, mum · What happens: get, catch, play, find · To what, where: long cord, neck
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 (toddler, neck, long cord, mum), 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 | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Australia | case |
| 4 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 toddler | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cord | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 toy | det |
| 11 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cord | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 toy | case |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cord | amod |
| 14 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 playing | mark |
| 16 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 cord | acl |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 playing | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mum | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 time | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | 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 | get | past | a toddler in Australia | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | catch | participle | Australia's neck | a toy's long cord | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | a toy's long cord not said here | alone property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | neck's mum | neck | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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:20.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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