Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 5
Bored on a dark evening and egged on by older boys, he threw a firecracker at old Mrs Reid's door.
Who acts: Glasgow · What happens: bore, egg on, throw · To what, where: firecracker, old door
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 (Glasgow), 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 | Bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 threw | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 evening | amod |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bored | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 egged | cc |
| 7 | egged | egg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Bored | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 egged | compound:prt |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 boys | case |
| 10 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 boys | amod |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 egged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | nsubj |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 firecracker | det |
| 16 | firecracker | firecracker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 door | amod |
| 19 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 door | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Reid | Reid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mrs | flat |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Mrs | case |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | participle | Glasgow not said here | evening | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | egg on | participle | Glasgow not said here | by older boys | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Glasgow | a firecracker | Mrs's old door | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent firecracker=Theme at door=Destination |
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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/5/