Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 20

A boy in England wore his seat belt under his arm because it rubbed; in a small crash it pressed into his tummy and hurt him inside.

Who acts: boy, belt · What happens: wear, rub, press, hurt · To what, where: seat belt, arm, small crash, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» 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, belt), 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 wore	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	wore	wear	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	8 belt	nmod:poss
7	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belt	compound
8	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 arm	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obl
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 rubbed	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rubbed	nsubj
14	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wore	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 pressed	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 crash	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crash	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crash	amod
19	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pressed	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pressed	nsubj
21	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rubbed	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 tummy	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tummy	nmod:poss
24	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pressed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hurt	cc
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pressed	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hurt	obj
28	inside	inside	ADV	_	26 hurt	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wore	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past	a boy in England	boy's seat belt	boy's arm		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent belt=Theme
2	rub	past	belt				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	press	past	belt		a small crash	into boy's tummy	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into tummy=Trajectory
4	hurt	past	belt not said here	boy		inside property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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