Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 19
A boy in Ireland swam in a deep lake to show he was not scared; the cold water tired him fast, and a man in a boat had to pull him out.
Who acts: boy, cold water, man · What happens: swim, show, not be, tire, have, pull out · To what, where: deep lake, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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, cold water, man), 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 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lake | amod |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swam | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swam | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 scared | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 scared | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 scared | advmod |
| 15 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 show | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tired | nsubj |
| 20 | tired | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swam | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tired | obj |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 tired | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 man | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 boat | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 boat | det |
| 29 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 man | nmod |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swam | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 pull | mark |
| 32 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pull | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 pull | compound:prt |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | a boy in Ireland | a deep lake | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a boy in Ireland not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | boy | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tire | past | the cold water | boy | fast property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | have | past | a man in a boat | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pull out | to-infinitive | a man in a boat not said here | boy | tree rules |
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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:19.
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): R6-punct-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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