Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 19
A firecracker at someone's door can frighten people and pets badly and damage the house; the police can be called.
Who acts: firecracker · What happens: frighten, damage, call · To what, where: people, house, police · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 (firecracker), 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 firecracker | det |
| 2 | firecracker | firecracker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frighten | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 door | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 firecracker | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 frighten | aux |
| 8 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frighten | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pets | cc |
| 11 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 people | conj |
| 12 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 frighten | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 damage | cc |
| 14 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 frighten | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 damage | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 police | det |
| 19 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 frighten | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | can | a firecracker at someone's door | people and pets | badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | damage | infinitive | a firecracker at someone's door not said here | the house | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | can · passive | the police | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:19.
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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