What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 21
Kieran split his chin on the kerb and needed four stitches.
Who acts: Kieran · What happens: split, need · To what, where: chin, kerb, four stitches
This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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 (Kieran), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 split | nsubj |
| 2 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 split | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 kerb | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kerb | det |
| 7 | kerb | kerb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 split | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 needed | cc |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 split | conj |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 stitches | nummod |
| 11 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 needed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 split | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past | Kieran | Kieran's chin | the kerb | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Patient | |||
| 2 | need | past | Kieran not said here | four stitches | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:21.
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): no change. 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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