Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 21

A boy in England pulled a chair away as a joke when his friend sat down; the friend fell, hit his head on the floor and needed hospital.

Who acts: boy, friend · What happens: pull away, sit down, fall, hit, need · To what, where: chair, head, hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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, friend), 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 pulled	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chair	det
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 pulled	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 joke	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 joke	det
11	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 sat	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	advcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 friend	det
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hit	punct
22	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fell	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hit	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 floor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hit	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 needed	cc
29	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fell	conj
30	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 needed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull away	past	a boy in England	a chair	as a joke; away property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	boy's friend		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	the friend			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hit	past	the friend not said here	boy's head	on the floor	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on floor=Patient
5	need	past	the friend not said here	hospital		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hospital=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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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