Climbing trees and playgrounds, sentence 5

A boy in New Zealand climbed onto a thin branch high in a tree to reach a ball; the branch snapped and he fell, breaking his leg in two places.

Who acts: boy, branch · What happens: climb, reach, snap, fall, break · To what, where: thin branch, ball, leg, two places

This is a sentence of the lesson «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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 (boy, branch), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	10 branch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 branch	det
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branch	amod
10	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	obl
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branch	amod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reach	mark
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 climbed	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ball	det
18	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reach	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 snapped	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branch	det
21	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 snapped	nsubj
22	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climbed	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fell	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 snapped	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 breaking	punct
27	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fell	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 leg	nmod:poss
29	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 breaking	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 places	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 places	nummod
32	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 breaking	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	climb	past	a boy in New Zealand		a thin branch	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto branch=Trajectory
2	reach	to-infinitive	a boy in New Zealand not said here	a ball		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	snap	past	the branch			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	boy			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	break	gerund	boy not said here	boy's leg	two places	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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:004-climbing.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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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