Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 21
A girl in Dublin told the nurse she had fallen off a bike when she had really swallowed a button battery; the right treatment was delayed and the battery burned her throat.
Who acts: girl, battery · What happens: tell, fall off, swallow, delay, burn · To what, where: nurse, bike, button battery, right treatment, throat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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 (girl, battery), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dublin | case |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nurse | det |
| 7 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fallen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fallen | aux |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 told | ccomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 bike | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bike | det |
| 13 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fallen | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 swallowed | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 swallowed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 swallowed | aux |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 swallowed | advmod |
| 18 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 fallen | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 battery | det |
| 20 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 battery | compound |
| 21 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swallowed | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 delayed | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 treatment | det |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 treatment | amod |
| 25 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 delayed | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 delayed | aux:pass |
| 27 | delayed | delay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 told | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 burned | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 battery | det |
| 30 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 burned | nsubj |
| 31 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 delayed | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 throat | nmod:poss |
| 33 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 burned | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | 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 | tell speech: assert | past | a girl in Dublin | the nurse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past · perfect | girl | a bike | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bike=Extent | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past · perfect | girl | a button battery | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | ||||
| 4 | delay | past · passive | the right treatment | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source | |||||
| 5 | burn | past | the battery | battery's throat | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent throat=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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:21.
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, 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.
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