Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 24
A blow or a fall onto a hard surface like a kerb can cause a serious head injury.
Who acts: blow · What happens: cause · To what, where: serious head injury
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (blow), 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 blow | det |
| 2 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 fall | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fall | det |
| 5 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blow | conj |
| 6 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 9 surface | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 surface | det |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 surface | amod |
| 9 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | nmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 kerb | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kerb | det |
| 12 | kerb | kerb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 surface | nmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cause | aux |
| 14 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 injury | det |
| 16 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 injury | amod |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 injury | compound |
| 18 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cause | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cause | 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 | cause | can | a blow or a fall onto a hard surface like a kerb | a serious head injury | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |
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:393-bystanders.lesson:24.
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. 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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