Fire at home, sentence 11

A boy in Michigan ran back into his burning house to get his video game; the smoke made him fall down, and firefighters had to carry him out.

Who acts: boy, smoke, firefighters · What happens: run back, burn, get, make, fall down, have · To what, where: burning house, video game, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire at home» 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, smoke, firefighters), 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 ran	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Michigan	case
4	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
9	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 game	nmod:poss
14	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 game	compound
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 smoke	det
18	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	xcomp
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 fall	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 carry	mark
28	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carry	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	28 carry	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run back	past	a boy in Michigan		into boy's burning house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result
2	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	a boy in Michigan not said here	boy's video game		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus
4	make	past	the smoke	boy		tree rules
5	fall down	infinitive	boy not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	firefighters			tree rules
7	carry out	to-infinitive	firefighters not said here	boy		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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:034-fire-at-home.lesson:11.

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 ×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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