Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities, sentence 20
A boy in a museum in London leaned on a glass case to see better; it broke, he cut his arm and a precious object was damaged.
Who acts: boy, case · What happens: lean, see, break, cut, damage · To what, where: glass case, arm, precious object
This is a sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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, case), 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 | 8 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 museum | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 museum | det |
| 5 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 London | case |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 museum | nmod |
| 8 | leaned | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 case | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 case | det |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 case | compound |
| 12 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaned | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 leaned | advcl |
| 15 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 see | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 broke | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 broke | nsubj |
| 18 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leaned | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cut | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cut | nsubj |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 broke | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arm | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cut | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 damaged | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 object | det |
| 26 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 object | amod |
| 27 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 damaged | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 damaged | aux:pass |
| 29 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cut | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | past | a boy in a museum in London | a glass case | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on case=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | a boy in a museum in London not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | break | past | case | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cut | past | boy | boy's arm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Product | ||||
| 5 | damage | past · passive | a precious object | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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.
See the release 0.4.
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