Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety, sentence 5
A boy wants to climb over for a better photo, but his mum explains that cliff edges can crumble without warning, so he takes the photo from behind the fence.
Who acts: boy, mum, cliff edges · What happens: want, climb over, explain, crumble, take · To what, where: photo, fence · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mum, cliff edges), 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 | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 climb | mark |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 climb | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 photo | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 photo | det |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 photo | amod |
| 10 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climb | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 explains | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 explains | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mum | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 explains | nsubj |
| 15 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 crumble | mark |
| 17 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 edges | compound |
| 18 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crumble | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 crumble | aux |
| 20 | crumble | crumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 explains | ccomp |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 warning | case |
| 22 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crumble | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 takes | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 takes | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 takes | nsubj |
| 26 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 photo | det |
| 28 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 takes | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 fence | case |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 32 fence | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fence | det |
| 32 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 takes | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | climb over not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy not said here | for a better photo; over property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | boy's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | crumble | can | cliff edges | without warning | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | take | present | boy | the photo | the fence | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent photo=Theme from fence=Initial_Location |
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:5.
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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