Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 3
Next time Theo felt the heat rising, he put the controller down and walked to the kitchen for a glass of water first.
Who acts: Theo, heat · What happens: feel, rise, put down, walk · To what, where: controller
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Theo, heat), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heat | det |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rising | nsubj |
| 7 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 controller | det |
| 12 | controller | controller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kitchen | det |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 glass | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 glass | det |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glass | nmod |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 walked | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Theo | time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | the heat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put down | past | Theo | the controller | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent controller=Goal | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | Theo not said here | to the kitchen result; for a glass of water; first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Result |
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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:3.
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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