Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety, sentence 17
A boy in Cornwall stood near a cliff edge to look at the sea; the edge crumbled and he fell, and he was rescued by helicopter with broken bones.
Who acts: boy, edge, helicopter · What happens: stand, look, crumble, fall, rescue, break · To what, where: cliff edge, boy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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, edge, helicopter), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Cornwall | case |
| 4 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 edge | det |
| 8 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | compound |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stood | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 crumbled | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 edge | det |
| 17 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crumbled | nsubj |
| 18 | crumbled | crumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 crumbled | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rescued | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rescued | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rescued | aux:pass |
| 26 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 helicopter | case |
| 28 | helicopter | helicopter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rescued | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 bones | case |
| 30 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 bones | amod |
| 31 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rescued | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a boy in Cornwall | a cliff edge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near edge=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | a boy in Cornwall not said here | at the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crumble | past | the edge | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | boy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rescue | past · passive | helicopter | boy | with broken bones | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 6 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.lesson:17.
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 ×2, 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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