Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes, sentence 16

A boy in England tried to use a hammer without an adult; he missed and hit his thumb so hard it swelled and the nail went black.

Who acts: boy, thumb, nail · What happens: try, use, miss, hit, swell, go · To what, where: hammer, thumb

This is a sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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, thumb, nail), 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 tried	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 use	mark
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hammer	det
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 adult	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 missed	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 missed	nsubj
15	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hit	cc
17	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 missed	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 thumb	nmod:poss
19	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hit	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 hard	advmod
21	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 swelled	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swelled	nsubj
23	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 missed	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nail	det
26	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 swelled	conj
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 went	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	a boy in England			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in England not said here	a hammer	without a adult	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Patient
3	miss	past	boy			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	hit	past	boy not said here	boy's thumb		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thumb=Co-Theme
5	swell	past	thumb		hard property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	go	past	the nail		black property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:16.

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): 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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