Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds, sentence 15

A boy in Sydney ran through a busy restaurant and crashed into a waiter carrying hot soup; the soup spilled on his arm and burned him.

Who acts: boy, waiter, soup · What happens: run, crash, carry, spill, burn · To what, where: busy restaurant, hot soup, arm, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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, waiter, soup), 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 ran	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 restaurant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 restaurant	det
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 restaurant	amod
9	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crashed	cc
11	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 waiter	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 waiter	det
14	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crashed	obl
15	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 waiter	acl
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soup	amod
17	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carrying	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 soup	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soup	det
20	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spilled	nsubj
21	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 arm	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arm	nmod:poss
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spilled	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 burned	cc
26	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spilled	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 burned	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	a boy in Sydney		a busy restaurant		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through restaurant=Trajectory
2	crash	past	a boy in Sydney not said here			into a waiter result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into waiter=Result
3	carry	gerund	a waiter not said here	hot soup			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Theme
4	spill	past	the soup		boy's arm		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location
5	burn	past	the soup not said here	boy			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:15.

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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