Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 16

A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose.

Who acts: boy, friend, racket · What happens: stand, practise, hit, break · To what, where: tennis serves, boy, face, nose

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» 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, friend, racket), 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 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stood	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 friend	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
10	practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 friend	acl
11	tennis	tennis	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 serves	compound
12	serves	serve	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 practising	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hit	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 racket	det
15	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hit	nsubj
16	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hit	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 face	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 face	det
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hit	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 broke	cc
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hit	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nose	nmod:poss
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a boy in England			close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	practise	gerund	a friend not said here	tennis serves			tree rules
3	hit	past	the racket	boy	the face		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in face=Destination
4	break	past	the racket not said here	boy's nose			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=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:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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