Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 16

Throwing stones at windows can injure people inside with flying glass, and it is a crime called criminal damage.

Who acts: Throwing, window, crime · What happens: throw, injure, fly, be, call · To what, where: stones, windows, people, crime, criminal damage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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 (Throwing, window, crime), 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	Throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 injure	csubj
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 windows	case
4	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stones	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 injure	aux
6	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 injure	obj
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 injure	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 glass	case
10	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 glass	amod
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 injure	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crime	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crime	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crime	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 crime	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 crime	det
17	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 injure	conj
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 crime	acl
19	criminal	criminal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 damage	amod
20	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 injure	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		stones	windows		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at window=Destination
2	injure	can	Throwing	people		with flying glass; inside property	tree rules
3	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	window	a crime			tree rules
5	call	participle	a crime not said here	criminal damage			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent damage=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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.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): 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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