Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 20

A boy in England dropped a small bottle from a fifth-floor balcony to see it fall; it hit a man on the pavement below and cut his head.

Who acts: boy, bottle · What happens: drop, see, fall, hit, cut · To what, where: small bottle, floor balcony, bottle, man, head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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, bottle), 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 dropped	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bottle	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bottle	amod
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	14 balcony	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 balcony	det
11	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 floor	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 fifth	punct
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 balcony	compound
14	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dropped	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	obj
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 hit	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hit	nsubj
21	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dropped	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hit	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 pavement	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pavement	det
26	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hit	obl
27	below	below	ADV	_	26 pavement	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cut	cc
29	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hit	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	a boy in England	a small bottle	a floor balcony		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme from balcony=Destination
2	see	to-infinitive	a boy in England not said here	bottle			tree rules
3	fall	infinitive	bottle not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hit	past	bottle	a man		on the pavement	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Instrument on pavement=Patient
5	cut	past	bottle not said here	boy's head			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product

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:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.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.

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